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    x86-64, mm: Put early page table high · 4b239f45
    Yinghai Lu authored
    
    
    While dubug kdump, found current kernel will have problem with crashkernel=512M.
    
    It turns out that initial mapping is to 512M, and later initial mapping to 4G
    (acutally is 2040M in my platform), will put page table near 512M.
    then initial mapping to 128g will be near 2g.
    
    before this patch:
    [    0.000000] initial memory mapped : 0 - 20000000
    [    0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [0x00000000000000-0x0000007f74ffff]
    [    0.000000]  0000000000 - 007f600000 page 2M
    [    0.000000]  007f600000 - 007f750000 page 4k
    [    0.000000] kernel direct mapping tables up to 7f750000 @ [0x1fffc000-0x1fffffff]
    [    0.000000]     memblock_x86_reserve_range: [0x1fffc000-0x1fffdfff]          PGTABLE
    [    0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [0x00000100000000-0x0000207fffffff]
    [    0.000000]  0100000000 - 2080000000 page 2M
    [    0.000000] kernel direct mapping tables up to 2080000000 @ [0x7bc01000-0x7bc83fff]
    [    0.000000]     memblock_x86_reserve_range: [0x7bc01000-0x7bc7efff]          PGTABLE
    [    0.000000] RAMDISK: 7bc84000 - 7f745000
    [    0.000000] crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found.
    
    after patch:
    [    0.000000] initial memory mapped : 0 - 20000000
    [    0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [0x00000000000000-0x0000007f74ffff]
    [    0.000000]  0000000000 - 007f600000 page 2M
    [    0.000000]  007f600000 - 007f750000 page 4k
    [    0.000000] kernel direct mapping tables up to 7f750000 @ [0x7f74c000-0x7f74ffff]
    [    0.000000]     memblock_x86_reserve_range: [0x7f74c000-0x7f74dfff]          PGTABLE
    [    0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [0x00000100000000-0x0000207fffffff]
    [    0.000000]  0100000000 - 2080000000 page 2M
    [    0.000000] kernel direct mapping tables up to 2080000000 @ [0x207ff7d000-0x207fffffff]
    [    0.000000]     memblock_x86_reserve_range: [0x207ff7d000-0x207fffafff]          PGTABLE
    [    0.000000] RAMDISK: 7bc84000 - 7f745000
    [    0.000000]     memblock_x86_reserve_range: [0x17000000-0x36ffffff]     CRASH KERNEL
    [    0.000000] Reserving 512MB of memory at 368MB for crashkernel (System RAM: 133120MB)
    
    It means with the patch, page table for [0, 2g) will need 2g, instead of under 512M,
    page table for [4g, 128g) will be near 128g, instead of under 2g.
    
    That would good, if we have lots of memory above 4g, like 1024g, or 2048g or 16T, will not put
    related page table under 2g. that would be have chance to fill the under 2g if 1G or 2M page is
    not used.
    
    the code change will use add map_low_page() and update unmap_low_page() for 64bit, and use them
    to get access the corresponding high memory for page table setting.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
    LKML-Reference: <4D0C0734.7060900@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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