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authorXunlei Pang <[email protected]>2017-01-23 14:48:23 +0800
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2017-01-23 08:57:55 +0100
commita8d4c8246b290ce97f88752d833804843041ac84 (patch)
treee5d51b3e7fc08733e17b7d4390c423d105020776
parent7a308bb3016f57e5be11a677d15b821536419d36 (diff)
x86/crash: Update the stale comment in reserve_crashkernel()
CRASH_KERNEL_ADDR_MAX has been missing for a long time, update it with a more detailed explanation. Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Baoquan He <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Young <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Robert LeBlanc <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/setup.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 4cfba947d774..eb69b14dbfc8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -575,7 +575,9 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
/* 0 means: find the address automatically */
if (crash_base <= 0) {
/*
- * kexec want bzImage is below CRASH_KERNEL_ADDR_MAX
+ * Set CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX upper bound for crash memory,
+ * as old kexec-tools loads bzImage below that, unless
+ * "crashkernel=size[KMG],high" is specified.
*/
crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(CRASH_ALIGN,
high ? CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX