[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 <jlan@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c
index d45f215..51b75ce 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c
@@ -1232,9 +1232,10 @@
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: