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    x86/kdump: Fall back to reserve high crashkernel memory · b9ac3849
    Dave Young authored
    crashkernel=xM tries to reserve memory for the crash kernel under 4G,
    which is enough, usually. But this could fail sometimes, for example
    when one tries to reserve a big chunk like 2G, for example.
    
    So let the crashkernel=xM just fall back to use high memory in case it
    fails to find a suitable low range. Do not set the ,high as default
    because it allocates extra low memory for DMA buffers and swiotlb, and
    this is not always necessary for all machines.
    
    Typically, crashkernel=128M usually works with low reservation under 4G,
    so keep <4G as default.
    
     [ bp: Massage. ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarBaoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
    Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
    Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
    Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
    Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
    Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
    Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
    Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
    Cc: piliu@redhat.com
    Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
    Cc: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Thymo van Beers <thymovanbeers@gmail.com>
    Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com
    Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
    Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
    Cc: Zhimin Gu <kookoo.gu@intel.com>
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190422031905.GA8387@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com
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