linux/arch
Xunlei Pang 8638100c52 x86/kexec/64: Use gbpages for identity mappings if available
Kexec sets up all identity mappings before booting into the new
kernel, and this will cause extra memory consumption for paging
structures which is quite considerable on modern machines with
huge memory sizes.

E.g. on a 32TB machine that is kdumping, it could waste around
128MB (around 4MB/TB) from the reserved memory after kexec sets
all the identity mappings using the current 2MB page.

Add to that the memory needed for the loaded kdump kernel, initramfs,
etc., and it causes a kexec syscall -NOMEM failure.

As a result, we had to enlarge reserved memory via "crashkernel=X"
to work around this problem.

This causes some trouble for distributions that use policies
to evaluate the proper "crashkernel=X" value for users.

So enable gbpages for kexec mappings.

Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493862171-8799-2-git-send-email-xlpang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-05-08 08:28:44 +02:00
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alpha Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 16:15:18 -07:00
arc Merge branch 'work.uaccess' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-01 14:41:04 -07:00
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c6x Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 22:07:51 -07:00
cris Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 22:07:51 -07:00
frv Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 22:07:51 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'work.uaccess' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-01 14:41:04 -07:00
hexagon Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 16:15:18 -07:00
ia64 Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 22:07:51 -07:00
m32r CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_RAW_COPY_USER is unconditional now 2017-04-26 12:11:01 -04:00
m68k Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 16:15:18 -07:00
metag Merge branch 'work.uaccess' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-01 14:41:04 -07:00
microblaze CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_RAW_COPY_USER is unconditional now 2017-04-26 12:11:01 -04:00
mips Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 22:07:51 -07:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 16:15:18 -07:00
nios2 Merge branch 'work.uaccess' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-01 14:41:04 -07:00
openrisc CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_RAW_COPY_USER is unconditional now 2017-04-26 12:11:01 -04:00
parisc Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 22:07:51 -07:00
powerpc Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 23:54:56 -07:00
s390 Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 23:54:56 -07:00
score Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 16:15:18 -07:00
sh Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 22:07:51 -07:00
sparc Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 19:12:53 -07:00
tile Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 16:15:18 -07:00
um Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 23:54:56 -07:00
unicore32 Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 23:54:56 -07:00
x86 x86/kexec/64: Use gbpages for identity mappings if available 2017-05-08 08:28:44 +02:00
xtensa Merge branch 'work.uaccess' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-01 14:41:04 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_RAW_COPY_USER is unconditional now 2017-04-26 12:11:01 -04:00