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authorXunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>2017-01-23 14:48:23 +0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-01-23 08:57:55 +0100
commita8d4c8246b290ce97f88752d833804843041ac84 (patch)
treee5d51b3e7fc08733e17b7d4390c423d105020776 /arch/x86
parent7a308bb3016f57e5be11a677d15b821536419d36 (diff)
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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 <xlpang@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Robert LeBlanc <robert@leblancnet.us> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485154103-18426-1-git-send-email-xlpang@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-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