On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 at 16:36, Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > Have you tested kdump? In my mind there are two issues, one is with > > > CMA enabled, it could cause kdump crashkernel memory reservation > > > failures more often due to the fragmented low memory. Secondly, in > > > > kho scracth memorys are reserved much later than crashkernel, we may not > > need to worry about it. > > ==================== > > start_kernel() > > ...... > > -->setup_arch(&command_line); > > -->arch_reserve_crashkernel(); > > ...... > > -->mm_core_init(); > > -->kho_memory_init(); > > > > > kdump kernel dump the crazy scratch memory in vmcore is not very > > > meaningful. Otherwise I suspect this is not tested under kdump. If > > > so please disable this option for kdump. > > Ok, it is fine if this is the case, thanks Baoquan for clearing this worry. > > But the other concerns are still need to address, eg. KHO use cases > are not good for kdump. > There could be more to think about. > eg. the issues talked in thread: > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Z7dc9Cd8KX3b_brB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/ Rethink about this, other than previous concerns. Transferring the old kernel state to kdump kernel makes no sense since the old state is not stable as the kernel has crashed.
