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authorJiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>2025-06-12 12:17:39 +0200
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2025-07-19 19:08:23 -0700
commitce1bf19a34dfa1f418037cebe11f5d2c7adf9d1e (patch)
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kdump, documentation: describe craskernel CMA reservation
Describe the new crashkernel ",cma" suffix in Documentation/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aEqpQwUy6gqSiUkV@dwarf.suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Donald Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com> Cc: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com> Cc: Tao Liu <ltao@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -986,6 +986,28 @@
0: to disable low allocation.
It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
or memory reserved is below 4G.
+ crashkernel=size[KMG],cma
+ [KNL, X86] Reserve additional crash kernel memory from
+ CMA. This reservation is usable by the first system's
+ userspace memory and kernel movable allocations (memory
+ balloon, zswap). Pages allocated from this memory range
+ will not be included in the vmcore so this should not
+ be used if dumping of userspace memory is intended and
+ it has to be expected that some movable kernel pages
+ may be missing from the dump.
+
+ A standard crashkernel reservation, as described above,
+ is still needed to hold the crash kernel and initrd.
+
+ This option increases the risk of a kdump failure: DMA
+ transfers configured by the first kernel may end up
+ corrupting the second kernel's memory.
+
+ This reservation method is intended for systems that
+ can't afford to sacrifice enough memory for standard
+ crashkernel reservation and where less reliable and
+ possibly incomplete kdump is preferable to no kdump at
+ all.
cryptomgr.notests
[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests