Re: [Patch 8/8] kexec: allow to shrink reserved memory

[Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:34:52AM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:15:56 +0800
>Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> wrote:
>    
>> > The, problem is whether memmap is there or not. That's all.
>> > plz see init sequence and check there are memmap.
>> > If memory-for-crash is obtained via bootmem,
>> > Don't you try to free memory hole ?
>> >   
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> It looks like that mem_map has 'struct page' for the reserved memory, I 
>> checked my "early_node_map[] active PFN ranges" output, the reserved 
>> memory area for crash kernel is right in one range. Am I missing 
>> something here?
>> 
>> I don't know why that oops comes out, maybe because of no PTE for thoese 
>> pages?
>> 
>Hmm ? Could you show me the code you use ?

(Sorry that I reply to you with my gmail, my work email can't send out
this message, probably because one of the destinations is broken...
I am the same person, don't be confused. :-)

Sure. Below is it:

+    for (addr = end + 1; addr < crashk_res.end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
+        printk(KERN_DEBUG "PFN is valid? %d\n", pfn_valid(addr>>PAGE_SHIFT));
+        ClearPageReserved(virt_to_page(addr));
+        init_page_count(virt_to_page(addr));
+        free_page(addr);
+        totalram_pages++;
+    }


pfn_valid() returns 1, and oops happens at ClearPageReserved().
('addr' is right between crashk_res.start and crashk_res.end)

Thank you!

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