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    x86/kexec/64: Use gbpages for identity mappings if available · 8638100c
    Xunlei Pang authored
    
    
    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: default avatarXunlei 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: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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