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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/setup.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c index 08a5f4a131f5..dcbdf54fb5c1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c @@ -453,15 +453,24 @@ static void __init memblock_x86_reserve_range_setup_data(void) #define CRASH_ALIGN SZ_16M /* - * Keep the crash kernel below this limit. On 32 bits earlier kernels - * would limit the kernel to the low 512 MiB due to mapping restrictions. + * Keep the crash kernel below this limit. + * + * On 32 bits earlier kernels would limit the kernel to the low 512 MiB + * due to mapping restrictions. + * + * On 64bit, kdump kernel need be restricted to be under 64TB, which is + * the upper limit of system RAM in 4-level paing mode. Since the kdump + * jumping could be from 5-level to 4-level, the jumping will fail if + * kernel is put above 64TB, and there's no way to detect the paging mode + * of the kernel which will be loaded for dumping during the 1st kernel + * bootup. */ #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 # define CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX SZ_512M # define CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX SZ_512M #else # define CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX SZ_4G -# define CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX MAXMEM +# define CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX SZ_64T #endif static int __init reserve_crashkernel_low(void) |