When using the "reserve_mem" parameter, users aim at having an
area that (hopefully) persists across boots, so pstore infrastructure
(like ramoops module) can make use of that to save oops/ftrace logs,
for example.
There is no easy way to determine if this kernel parameter is properly
set though; the kernel doesn't show information about this memory in
memblock debugfs, neither in /proc/iomem nor dmesg. This is a relevant
information for tools like kdumpst[0], to determine if it's reliable
to use the reserved area as ramoops persistent storage; checking only
/proc/cmdline is not sufficient as it doesn't tell if the reservation
effectively succeeded or not.
Add here a new file under memblock debugfs showing properly set memory
reservations, with name and size as passed to "reserve_mem". Notice that
if no "reserve_mem=" is passed on command-line or if the reservation
attempts fail, the file is not created.
[0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kdumpst
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <[email protected]>
Commit 1e4c64b71c ("mm/memblock: Add "reserve_mem" to reserved named
memory at boot up") introduce the usage of memparse(), which is not
defined in memblock test.
Add the definition and link it to fix the build.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <[email protected]>
commit 23baf831a3 ("mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely") has
changed the definition of MAX_ORDER to be inclusive. This has caused
issues with code that was not yet upstream and depended on the previous
definition.
To draw attention to the altered meaning of the define, rename MAX_ORDER
to MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Pull memblock updates from Mike Rapoport:
- An optimization in memblock_add_range() to reduce array traversals
- Improvements to the memblock test suite
* tag 'memblock-v5.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/memblock:
memblock test: Modify the obsolete description in README
memblock tests: fix compilation errors
memblock tests: change build options to run-time options
memblock tests: remove completed TODO items
memblock tests: set memblock_debug to enable memblock_dbg() messages
memblock tests: add verbose output to memblock tests
memblock tests: Makefile: add arguments to control verbosity
memblock: avoid some repeat when add new range
Guilherme G. Piccoli