Hello
I try to do kexec on a cortina/gemini SoC.
On a "normal" boot, kexec fail to find memory so I added crashkernel=8M to cmdline. (kernel size is ~6M).
But now, kernel fail to reserve memory:
Load Kern image from 0x30020000 to 0x800000 size 7340032
Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
Linux version 5.12.0-rc5-next-20210401+ (compile@Red) (armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Gentoo 9.3.0-r2 p4) 9.3.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0) #98 PREEMPT Wed Apr 7 14:14:08 CEST 2021
CPU: FA526 [66015261] revision 1 (ARMv4), cr=0000397f
CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
OF: fdt: Machine model: Edimax NS-2502
Memory policy: Data cache writeback
Zone ranges:
Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
HighMem empty
Movable zone start for each node
Early memory node ranges
node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found.
Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,19200n8 ip=dhcp crashkernel=8M
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
Memory: 119476K/131072K available (5034K kernel code, 579K rwdata, 1372K rodata, 3020K init, 210K bss, 11596K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 0K highmem)
SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
What can I do ?
Thanks
Regards
On 4/7/2021 07:23, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:13:04AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a écrit :
>> On 4/7/2021 05:54, Corentin Labbe wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I try to do kexec on a cortina/gemini SoC.
>>> On a "normal" boot, kexec fail to find memory so I added crashkernel=8M to cmdline. (kernel size is ~6M).
>>> But now, kernel fail to reserve memory:
>>> Load Kern image from 0x30020000 to 0x800000 size 7340032
>>> Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
>>> Linux version 5.12.0-rc5-next-20210401+ (compile@Red) (armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Gentoo 9.3.0-r2 p4) 9.3.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0) #98 PREEMPT Wed Apr 7 14:14:08 CEST 2021
>>> CPU: FA526 [66015261] revision 1 (ARMv4), cr=0000397f
>>> CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
>>> OF: fdt: Machine model: Edimax NS-2502
>>> Memory policy: Data cache writeback
>>> Zone ranges:
>>> Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
>>> HighMem empty
>>> Movable zone start for each node
>>> Early memory node ranges
>>> node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
>>> Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
>>> crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found.
>>> Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512
>>> Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,19200n8 ip=dhcp crashkernel=8M
>>> Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear)
>>> Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
>>> mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
>>> Memory: 119476K/131072K available (5034K kernel code, 579K rwdata, 1372K rodata, 3020K init, 210K bss, 11596K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 0K highmem)
>>> SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
>>>
>>> What can I do ?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> kexec mailing list
>>> [email protected]
>>> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
>>>
>>
>> Hello Corentin,
>>
>> I see much larger crashkernel=xxM being shown here
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
>> and from many of my other searches.
>>
>> Here is an interesting article on kdump for ARM-32
>> https://kaiwantech.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/setting-up-kdump-and-crash-for-arm-32-an-ongoing-saga/
>>
>>
>> Here is the kernel command line reference
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt?h=v5.11#n732
>>
>> I feel your frustrations too.
>
> Hello
>
> Thanks but I have already read those documentation.
> I search to know why the kernel cannot find 8M of memory ouf of 128.
>
> Regards
>
How much more memory does the kernel and initrd above and beyond just
their physical size? (heaps, stacks, buffers, virtual filesystems)
On 4/7/2021 05:54, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> Hello
>
> I try to do kexec on a cortina/gemini SoC.
> On a "normal" boot, kexec fail to find memory so I added crashkernel=8M to cmdline. (kernel size is ~6M).
> But now, kernel fail to reserve memory:
> Load Kern image from 0x30020000 to 0x800000 size 7340032
> Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
> Linux version 5.12.0-rc5-next-20210401+ (compile@Red) (armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Gentoo 9.3.0-r2 p4) 9.3.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0) #98 PREEMPT Wed Apr 7 14:14:08 CEST 2021
> CPU: FA526 [66015261] revision 1 (ARMv4), cr=0000397f
> CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
> OF: fdt: Machine model: Edimax NS-2502
> Memory policy: Data cache writeback
> Zone ranges:
> Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
> HighMem empty
> Movable zone start for each node
> Early memory node ranges
> node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
> Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
> crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found.
> Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512
> Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,19200n8 ip=dhcp crashkernel=8M
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
> mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
> Memory: 119476K/131072K available (5034K kernel code, 579K rwdata, 1372K rodata, 3020K init, 210K bss, 11596K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 0K highmem)
> SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
>
> What can I do ?
>
> Thanks
> Regards
>
> _______________________________________________
> kexec mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
>
Hello Corentin,
I see much larger crashkernel=xxM being shown here
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
and from many of my other searches.
Here is an interesting article on kdump for ARM-32
https://kaiwantech.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/setting-up-kdump-and-crash-for-arm-32-an-ongoing-saga/
Here is the kernel command line reference
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt?h=v5.11#n732
I feel your frustrations too.
--
Bruce
Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:28:26AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a ?crit :
> On 4/7/2021 07:23, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:13:04AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a ?crit :
> >> On 4/7/2021 05:54, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> >>> Hello
> >>>
> >>> I try to do kexec on a cortina/gemini SoC.
> >>> On a "normal" boot, kexec fail to find memory so I added crashkernel=8M to cmdline. (kernel size is ~6M).
> >>> But now, kernel fail to reserve memory:
> >>> Load Kern image from 0x30020000 to 0x800000 size 7340032
> >>> Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
> >>> Linux version 5.12.0-rc5-next-20210401+ (compile@Red) (armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Gentoo 9.3.0-r2 p4) 9.3.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0) #98 PREEMPT Wed Apr 7 14:14:08 CEST 2021
> >>> CPU: FA526 [66015261] revision 1 (ARMv4), cr=0000397f
> >>> CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
> >>> OF: fdt: Machine model: Edimax NS-2502
> >>> Memory policy: Data cache writeback
> >>> Zone ranges:
> >>> Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
> >>> HighMem empty
> >>> Movable zone start for each node
> >>> Early memory node ranges
> >>> node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
> >>> Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
> >>> crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found.
> >>> Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512
> >>> Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,19200n8 ip=dhcp crashkernel=8M
> >>> Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear)
> >>> Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
> >>> mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
> >>> Memory: 119476K/131072K available (5034K kernel code, 579K rwdata, 1372K rodata, 3020K init, 210K bss, 11596K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 0K highmem)
> >>> SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
> >>>
> >>> What can I do ?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Regards
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> kexec mailing list
> >>> [email protected]
> >>> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hello Corentin,
> >>
> >> I see much larger crashkernel=xxM being shown here
> >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
> >> and from many of my other searches.
> >>
> >> Here is an interesting article on kdump for ARM-32
> >> https://kaiwantech.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/setting-up-kdump-and-crash-for-arm-32-an-ongoing-saga/
> >>
> >>
> >> Here is the kernel command line reference
> >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt?h=v5.11#n732
> >>
> >> I feel your frustrations too.
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > Thanks but I have already read those documentation.
> > I search to know why the kernel cannot find 8M of memory ouf of 128.
> >
> > Regards
> >
>
> How much more memory does the kernel and initrd above and beyond just
> their physical size? (heaps, stacks, buffers, virtual filesystems)
The kernel size include a rootfs.cpio.lzma of 3MB and dtb is appended.
The total kernel size is 7MB.
The uncompressed size of the kernel is 13M (size of vmlinux)
The uncompressed size of rootfs is 11M.
cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 122496 kB
MemFree: 103700 kB
MemAvailable: 101936 kB
Buffers: 0 kB
Cached: 10904 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 4304 kB
Inactive: 8012 kB
Active(anon): 4304 kB
Inactive(anon): 8012 kB
Active(file): 0 kB
Inactive(file): 0 kB
Unevictable: 0 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 122496 kB
LowFree: 103700 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 1428 kB
Mapped: 3552 kB
Shmem: 10904 kB
KReclaimable: 608 kB
Slab: 2960 kB
SReclaimable: 608 kB
SUnreclaim: 2352 kB
KernelStack: 312 kB
PageTables: 136 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 61248 kB
Committed_AS: 14336 kB
VmallocTotal: 901120 kB
VmallocUsed: 64 kB
VmallocChunk: 0 kB
Percpu: 32 kB
CmaTotal: 0 kB
CmaFree: 0 kB
On 4/7/2021 07:48, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:28:26AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a écrit :
>> On 4/7/2021 07:23, Corentin Labbe wrote:
>>> Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:13:04AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a écrit :
>>>> On 4/7/2021 05:54, Corentin Labbe wrote:
>>>>> Hello
>>>>>
>>>>> I try to do kexec on a cortina/gemini SoC.
>>>>> On a "normal" boot, kexec fail to find memory so I added crashkernel=8M to cmdline. (kernel size is ~6M).
>>>>> But now, kernel fail to reserve memory:
>>>>> Load Kern image from 0x30020000 to 0x800000 size 7340032
>>>>> Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
>>>>> Linux version 5.12.0-rc5-next-20210401+ (compile@Red) (armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Gentoo 9.3.0-r2 p4) 9.3.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0) #98 PREEMPT Wed Apr 7 14:14:08 CEST 2021
>>>>> CPU: FA526 [66015261] revision 1 (ARMv4), cr=0000397f
>>>>> CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
>>>>> OF: fdt: Machine model: Edimax NS-2502
>>>>> Memory policy: Data cache writeback
>>>>> Zone ranges:
>>>>> Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
>>>>> HighMem empty
>>>>> Movable zone start for each node
>>>>> Early memory node ranges
>>>>> node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
>>>>> Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
>>>>> crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found.
>>>>> Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512
>>>>> Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,19200n8 ip=dhcp crashkernel=8M
>>>>> Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear)
>>>>> Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
>>>>> mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
>>>>> Memory: 119476K/131072K available (5034K kernel code, 579K rwdata, 1372K rodata, 3020K init, 210K bss, 11596K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 0K highmem)
>>>>> SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
>>>>>
>>>>> What can I do ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> kexec mailing list
>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello Corentin,
>>>>
>>>> I see much larger crashkernel=xxM being shown here
>>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
>>>> and from many of my other searches.
>>>>
>>>> Here is an interesting article on kdump for ARM-32
>>>> https://kaiwantech.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/setting-up-kdump-and-crash-for-arm-32-an-ongoing-saga/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here is the kernel command line reference
>>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt?h=v5.11#n732
>>>>
>>>> I feel your frustrations too.
>>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Thanks but I have already read those documentation.
>>> I search to know why the kernel cannot find 8M of memory ouf of 128.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>
>> How much more memory does the kernel and initrd above and beyond just
>> their physical size? (heaps, stacks, buffers, virtual filesystems)
>
> The kernel size include a rootfs.cpio.lzma of 3MB and dtb is appended.
> The total kernel size is 7MB.
> The uncompressed size of the kernel is 13M (size of vmlinux)
> The uncompressed size of rootfs is 11M.
>
> cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal: 122496 kB
> MemFree: 103700 kB
> MemAvailable: 101936 kB
> Buffers: 0 kB
> Cached: 10904 kB
> SwapCached: 0 kB
> Active: 4304 kB
> Inactive: 8012 kB
> Active(anon): 4304 kB
> Inactive(anon): 8012 kB
> Active(file): 0 kB
> Inactive(file): 0 kB
> Unevictable: 0 kB
> Mlocked: 0 kB
> HighTotal: 0 kB
> HighFree: 0 kB
> LowTotal: 122496 kB
> LowFree: 103700 kB
> SwapTotal: 0 kB
> SwapFree: 0 kB
> Dirty: 0 kB
> Writeback: 0 kB
> AnonPages: 1428 kB
> Mapped: 3552 kB
> Shmem: 10904 kB
> KReclaimable: 608 kB
> Slab: 2960 kB
> SReclaimable: 608 kB
> SUnreclaim: 2352 kB
> KernelStack: 312 kB
> PageTables: 136 kB
> NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
> Bounce: 0 kB
> WritebackTmp: 0 kB
> CommitLimit: 61248 kB
> Committed_AS: 14336 kB
> VmallocTotal: 901120 kB
> VmallocUsed: 64 kB
> VmallocChunk: 0 kB
> Percpu: 32 kB
> CmaTotal: 0 kB
> CmaFree: 0 kB
>
I believe you need space for all of that,
the smallest that would work for me was 20MB.
Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:13:04AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a ?crit :
> On 4/7/2021 05:54, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I try to do kexec on a cortina/gemini SoC.
> > On a "normal" boot, kexec fail to find memory so I added crashkernel=8M to cmdline. (kernel size is ~6M).
> > But now, kernel fail to reserve memory:
> > Load Kern image from 0x30020000 to 0x800000 size 7340032
> > Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
> > Linux version 5.12.0-rc5-next-20210401+ (compile@Red) (armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Gentoo 9.3.0-r2 p4) 9.3.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0) #98 PREEMPT Wed Apr 7 14:14:08 CEST 2021
> > CPU: FA526 [66015261] revision 1 (ARMv4), cr=0000397f
> > CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
> > OF: fdt: Machine model: Edimax NS-2502
> > Memory policy: Data cache writeback
> > Zone ranges:
> > Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
> > HighMem empty
> > Movable zone start for each node
> > Early memory node ranges
> > node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
> > Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
> > crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found.
> > Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512
> > Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,19200n8 ip=dhcp crashkernel=8M
> > Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear)
> > Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
> > mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
> > Memory: 119476K/131072K available (5034K kernel code, 579K rwdata, 1372K rodata, 3020K init, 210K bss, 11596K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 0K highmem)
> > SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
> >
> > What can I do ?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Regards
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > kexec mailing list
> > [email protected]
> > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
> >
>
> Hello Corentin,
>
> I see much larger crashkernel=xxM being shown here
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
> and from many of my other searches.
>
> Here is an interesting article on kdump for ARM-32
> https://kaiwantech.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/setting-up-kdump-and-crash-for-arm-32-an-ongoing-saga/
>
>
> Here is the kernel command line reference
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt?h=v5.11#n732
>
> I feel your frustrations too.
Hello
Thanks but I have already read those documentation.
I search to know why the kernel cannot find 8M of memory ouf of 128.
Regards
Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:59:27AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a ?crit :
> On 4/7/2021 07:48, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:28:26AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a ?crit :
> >> On 4/7/2021 07:23, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> >>> Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:13:04AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a ?crit :
> >>>> On 4/7/2021 05:54, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> >>>>> Hello
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I try to do kexec on a cortina/gemini SoC.
> >>>>> On a "normal" boot, kexec fail to find memory so I added crashkernel=8M to cmdline. (kernel size is ~6M).
> >>>>> But now, kernel fail to reserve memory:
> >>>>> Load Kern image from 0x30020000 to 0x800000 size 7340032
> >>>>> Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
> >>>>> Linux version 5.12.0-rc5-next-20210401+ (compile@Red) (armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Gentoo 9.3.0-r2 p4) 9.3.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0) #98 PREEMPT Wed Apr 7 14:14:08 CEST 2021
> >>>>> CPU: FA526 [66015261] revision 1 (ARMv4), cr=0000397f
> >>>>> CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
> >>>>> OF: fdt: Machine model: Edimax NS-2502
> >>>>> Memory policy: Data cache writeback
> >>>>> Zone ranges:
> >>>>> Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
> >>>>> HighMem empty
> >>>>> Movable zone start for each node
> >>>>> Early memory node ranges
> >>>>> node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
> >>>>> Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
> >>>>> crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found.
> >>>>> Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512
> >>>>> Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,19200n8 ip=dhcp crashkernel=8M
> >>>>> Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear)
> >>>>> Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
> >>>>> mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
> >>>>> Memory: 119476K/131072K available (5034K kernel code, 579K rwdata, 1372K rodata, 3020K init, 210K bss, 11596K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 0K highmem)
> >>>>> SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What can I do ?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks
> >>>>> Regards
> >>>>>
> >>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>>> kexec mailing list
> >>>>> [email protected]
> >>>>> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Hello Corentin,
> >>>>
> >>>> I see much larger crashkernel=xxM being shown here
> >>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
> >>>> and from many of my other searches.
> >>>>
> >>>> Here is an interesting article on kdump for ARM-32
> >>>> https://kaiwantech.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/setting-up-kdump-and-crash-for-arm-32-an-ongoing-saga/
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Here is the kernel command line reference
> >>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt?h=v5.11#n732
> >>>>
> >>>> I feel your frustrations too.
> >>>
> >>> Hello
> >>>
> >>> Thanks but I have already read those documentation.
> >>> I search to know why the kernel cannot find 8M of memory ouf of 128.
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>>
> >>
> >> How much more memory does the kernel and initrd above and beyond just
> >> their physical size? (heaps, stacks, buffers, virtual filesystems)
> >
> > The kernel size include a rootfs.cpio.lzma of 3MB and dtb is appended.
> > The total kernel size is 7MB.
> > The uncompressed size of the kernel is 13M (size of vmlinux)
> > The uncompressed size of rootfs is 11M.
> >
> > cat /proc/meminfo
> > MemTotal: 122496 kB
> > MemFree: 103700 kB
> > MemAvailable: 101936 kB
> > Buffers: 0 kB
> > Cached: 10904 kB
> > SwapCached: 0 kB
> > Active: 4304 kB
> > Inactive: 8012 kB
> > Active(anon): 4304 kB
> > Inactive(anon): 8012 kB
> > Active(file): 0 kB
> > Inactive(file): 0 kB
> > Unevictable: 0 kB
> > Mlocked: 0 kB
> > HighTotal: 0 kB
> > HighFree: 0 kB
> > LowTotal: 122496 kB
> > LowFree: 103700 kB
> > SwapTotal: 0 kB
> > SwapFree: 0 kB
> > Dirty: 0 kB
> > Writeback: 0 kB
> > AnonPages: 1428 kB
> > Mapped: 3552 kB
> > Shmem: 10904 kB
> > KReclaimable: 608 kB
> > Slab: 2960 kB
> > SReclaimable: 608 kB
> > SUnreclaim: 2352 kB
> > KernelStack: 312 kB
> > PageTables: 136 kB
> > NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
> > Bounce: 0 kB
> > WritebackTmp: 0 kB
> > CommitLimit: 61248 kB
> > Committed_AS: 14336 kB
> > VmallocTotal: 901120 kB
> > VmallocUsed: 64 kB
> > VmallocChunk: 0 kB
> > Percpu: 32 kB
> > CmaTotal: 0 kB
> > CmaFree: 0 kB
> >
>
> I believe you need space for all of that,
> the smallest that would work for me was 20MB.
I tried without any change.
Anyway when trying to kexec I got:
kexec --no-ifdown --command-line="console=ttyS0,19200n8" /tmp/kernel |
Could not find a free area of memory of 0x668a8a bytes...
Cannot load /tmp/kernel
So reserving 8M is enough according to what kexec said.
So anyone know why the kernel cannot reserve 8M ?
Thanks
Le Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 04:53:13PM +0200, Corentin Labbe a ?crit :
> Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:59:27AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a ?crit :
> > On 4/7/2021 07:48, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > > Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:28:26AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a ?crit :
> > >> On 4/7/2021 07:23, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > >>> Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:13:04AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a ?crit :
> > >>>> On 4/7/2021 05:54, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > >>>>> Hello
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> I try to do kexec on a cortina/gemini SoC.
> > >>>>> On a "normal" boot, kexec fail to find memory so I added crashkernel=8M to cmdline. (kernel size is ~6M).
> > >>>>> But now, kernel fail to reserve memory:
> > >>>>> Load Kern image from 0x30020000 to 0x800000 size 7340032
> > >>>>> Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
> > >>>>> Linux version 5.12.0-rc5-next-20210401+ (compile@Red) (armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Gentoo 9.3.0-r2 p4) 9.3.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0) #98 PREEMPT Wed Apr 7 14:14:08 CEST 2021
> > >>>>> CPU: FA526 [66015261] revision 1 (ARMv4), cr=0000397f
> > >>>>> CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
> > >>>>> OF: fdt: Machine model: Edimax NS-2502
> > >>>>> Memory policy: Data cache writeback
> > >>>>> Zone ranges:
> > >>>>> Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
> > >>>>> HighMem empty
> > >>>>> Movable zone start for each node
> > >>>>> Early memory node ranges
> > >>>>> node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
> > >>>>> Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
> > >>>>> crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found.
> > >>>>> Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512
> > >>>>> Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,19200n8 ip=dhcp crashkernel=8M
> > >>>>> Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear)
> > >>>>> Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
> > >>>>> mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
> > >>>>> Memory: 119476K/131072K available (5034K kernel code, 579K rwdata, 1372K rodata, 3020K init, 210K bss, 11596K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 0K highmem)
> > >>>>> SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> What can I do ?
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Thanks
> > >>>>> Regards
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> _______________________________________________
> > >>>>> kexec mailing list
> > >>>>> [email protected]
> > >>>>> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Hello Corentin,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I see much larger crashkernel=xxM being shown here
> > >>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
> > >>>> and from many of my other searches.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Here is an interesting article on kdump for ARM-32
> > >>>> https://kaiwantech.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/setting-up-kdump-and-crash-for-arm-32-an-ongoing-saga/
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Here is the kernel command line reference
> > >>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt?h=v5.11#n732
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I feel your frustrations too.
> > >>>
> > >>> Hello
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks but I have already read those documentation.
> > >>> I search to know why the kernel cannot find 8M of memory ouf of 128.
> > >>>
> > >>> Regards
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> How much more memory does the kernel and initrd above and beyond just
> > >> their physical size? (heaps, stacks, buffers, virtual filesystems)
> > >
> > > The kernel size include a rootfs.cpio.lzma of 3MB and dtb is appended.
> > > The total kernel size is 7MB.
> > > The uncompressed size of the kernel is 13M (size of vmlinux)
> > > The uncompressed size of rootfs is 11M.
> > >
> > > cat /proc/meminfo
> > > MemTotal: 122496 kB
> > > MemFree: 103700 kB
> > > MemAvailable: 101936 kB
> > > Buffers: 0 kB
> > > Cached: 10904 kB
> > > SwapCached: 0 kB
> > > Active: 4304 kB
> > > Inactive: 8012 kB
> > > Active(anon): 4304 kB
> > > Inactive(anon): 8012 kB
> > > Active(file): 0 kB
> > > Inactive(file): 0 kB
> > > Unevictable: 0 kB
> > > Mlocked: 0 kB
> > > HighTotal: 0 kB
> > > HighFree: 0 kB
> > > LowTotal: 122496 kB
> > > LowFree: 103700 kB
> > > SwapTotal: 0 kB
> > > SwapFree: 0 kB
> > > Dirty: 0 kB
> > > Writeback: 0 kB
> > > AnonPages: 1428 kB
> > > Mapped: 3552 kB
> > > Shmem: 10904 kB
> > > KReclaimable: 608 kB
> > > Slab: 2960 kB
> > > SReclaimable: 608 kB
> > > SUnreclaim: 2352 kB
> > > KernelStack: 312 kB
> > > PageTables: 136 kB
> > > NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
> > > Bounce: 0 kB
> > > WritebackTmp: 0 kB
> > > CommitLimit: 61248 kB
> > > Committed_AS: 14336 kB
> > > VmallocTotal: 901120 kB
> > > VmallocUsed: 64 kB
> > > VmallocChunk: 0 kB
> > > Percpu: 32 kB
> > > CmaTotal: 0 kB
> > > CmaFree: 0 kB
> > >
> >
> > I believe you need space for all of that,
> > the smallest that would work for me was 20MB.
>
> I tried without any change.
>
> Anyway when trying to kexec I got:
> kexec --no-ifdown --command-line="console=ttyS0,19200n8" /tmp/kernel |
> Could not find a free area of memory of 0x668a8a bytes...
> Cannot load /tmp/kernel
>
> So reserving 8M is enough according to what kexec said.
>
> So anyone know why the kernel cannot reserve 8M ?
> Thanks
It seems to be related to:
arch/arm/kernel/setup.c:977 "The crash region must be aligned to 128MB to avoid"
Hacking CRASH_ALIGN to 64 permit Linux to reserve 8M at boot.
But kexec still fail after with the same reason. (Could not find a free area of memory of 0x668a8a bytes)