From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:27:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5147B0EC.2020907@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE9FiQXFabEpW0SpJZ+88zMZmQvExTzXU7+MOqBRx-JD61aJPg@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/18/2013 04:26 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> now only have:
> swiotlb overflow buffer
>
> v_overflow_buffer = alloc_bootmem_low_pages_nopanic(
> PAGE_ALIGN(io_tlb_overflow));
>
> and
> /*
> * When the IOMMU overflows we return a fallback buffer. This
> sets the size.
> */
> static unsigned long io_tlb_overflow = 32*1024;
>
> so it is 32K, and I round it to 8M.
>
So put that into prose, understandable by someone who hasn't followed
this discussion (say, five years from now), and make that part of the
commit.
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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2013-03-08 5:54 3.9-rc1: crash kernel panic - not syncing: Can not allocate SWIOTLB buffer earlier and can't now provide you with the DMA bounce buffer WANG Chao
2013-03-08 6:03 ` CAI Qian
2013-03-08 6:32 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 6:36 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 7:20 ` WANG Chao
2013-03-08 7:27 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 7:33 ` WANG Chao
2013-03-08 7:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 12:12 ` WANG Chao
2013-03-08 18:24 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 19:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 3:42 ` WANG Chao
2013-03-11 4:56 ` [PATCH] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 14:48 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 15:02 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 17:58 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 18:26 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 18:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 18:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 18:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 18:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 19:06 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 19:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 19:08 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 19:20 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 20:12 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 20:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 20:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 20:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-11 20:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 21:10 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 21:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 20:45 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 20:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 21:03 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 21:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-12 13:46 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-12 8:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-03-11 20:57 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 21:06 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 21:15 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 19:10 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:34 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 19:38 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 19:44 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-18 14:46 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-18 15:33 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-18 19:05 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-18 19:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-18 20:00 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-18 21:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-18 21:25 ` [PATCH v3] " Yinghai Lu
2013-03-18 22:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-18 23:26 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-19 0:27 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-03-19 1:04 ` [PATCH v4] " Yinghai Lu
2013-03-19 13:33 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-19 15:05 ` [PATCH v5] " Yinghai Lu
2013-03-20 13:08 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-20 15:53 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-20 16:03 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-20 16:21 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-20 16:31 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-20 19:22 ` [PATCH] kexec: use Crash kernel for Crash kernel low Yinghai Lu
2013-03-25 19:42 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-25 21:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-26 18:14 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-01 13:34 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-01 18:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-01 19:26 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-01 20:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-01 21:10 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-01 22:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-01 22:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-01 22:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-01 22:40 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 1:11 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 13:50 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-02 14:17 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-02 14:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 14:45 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 14:58 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-02 15:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 15:39 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-02 15:46 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 15:50 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-02 17:21 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 13:30 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:14 ` [PATCH] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-11 19:22 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 20:17 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 19:02 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 19:17 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 13:14 ` 3.9-rc1: crash kernel panic - not syncing: Can not allocate SWIOTLB buffer earlier and can't now provide you with the DMA bounce buffer Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-08 7:52 ` Takao Indoh
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