From: Jay Lan Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:21:19 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [IA64] kexec fails on systems with blocks of uncached memory X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc8~31^2 X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d3758f87f39c5b072dde74c55bfb988262a3a45c;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git [IA64] kexec fails on systems with blocks of uncached memory Currently a memory segment in memory map with attribute of EFI_MEMORY_UC is denoted as "System RAM" in /proc/iomem, while memory of attribute (EFI_MEMORY_WB|EFI_MEMORY_UC) is also labeled the same. The kexec utility then includes uncached memory as part of vmcore. The kdump kernel MCA'ed when it tries to save the vmcore to a disk. A normal "cached" access may cause MCAs. This patch would label memory with attribute of EFI_MEMORY_UC only as "Uncached RAM" so that kexec would know not to include it in the vmcore. I will submit a separate kexec-tools patch to the kexec list. Signed-off-by: Jay Lan Acked-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Tony Luck --- diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c index d45f215bc8f..51b75cea701 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c @@ -1232,9 +1232,10 @@ efi_initialize_iomem_resources(struct resource *code_resource, if (md->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_WP) { name = "System ROM"; flags |= IORESOURCE_READONLY; - } else { + } else if (md->attribute == EFI_MEMORY_UC) + name = "Uncached RAM"; + else name = "System RAM"; - } break; case EFI_ACPI_MEMORY_NVS: