[POWERPC] pseries/phyp dump: Reserve a variable amount of space at boot

This changes the way we calculate how much space to reserve for the
pHyp dump.  Currently we reserve 256MB only.  With this change, the
code first checks to see if an amount has been specified on the boot
command line with the "phyp_dump_reserve_size" option, and if so, uses
that much.

Otherwise it computes 5% of total ram and rounds it down to a multiple
of 256MB, and uses the larger of that or 256MB.

This is for large systems with a lot of memory (10GB or more).  The
aim is to have more space available for the kernel on reboot on
machines with more resources.  Although the dump will be collected
pretty fast and the memory released really early on allowing the
machine to have the full memory available, this alleviates any issues
that can be caused by having way too little memory on very very large
systems during those few minutes.

Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
index 31d5b22c59a..8a9359ae471 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -1043,6 +1043,33 @@ static void __init early_reserve_mem(void)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PHYP_DUMP
 /**
+ * phyp_dump_calculate_reserve_size() - reserve variable boot area 5% or arg
+ *
+ * Function to find the largest size we need to reserve
+ * during early boot process.
+ *
+ * It either looks for boot param and returns that OR
+ * returns larger of 256 or 5% rounded down to multiples of 256MB.
+ *
+ */
+static inline unsigned long phyp_dump_calculate_reserve_size(void)
+{
+	unsigned long tmp;
+
+	if (phyp_dump_info->reserve_bootvar)
+		return phyp_dump_info->reserve_bootvar;
+
+	/* divide by 20 to get 5% of value */
+	tmp = lmb_end_of_DRAM();
+	do_div(tmp, 20);
+
+	/* round it down in multiples of 256 */
+	tmp = tmp & ~0x0FFFFFFFUL;
+
+	return (tmp > PHYP_DUMP_RMR_END ? tmp : PHYP_DUMP_RMR_END);
+}
+
+/**
  * phyp_dump_reserve_mem() - reserve all not-yet-dumped mmemory
  *
  * This routine may reserve memory regions in the kernel only
@@ -1055,6 +1082,8 @@ static void __init early_reserve_mem(void)
 static void __init phyp_dump_reserve_mem(void)
 {
 	unsigned long base, size;
+	unsigned long variable_reserve_size;
+
 	if (!phyp_dump_info->phyp_dump_configured) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "Phyp-dump not supported on this hardware\n");
 		return;
@@ -1065,9 +1094,11 @@ static void __init phyp_dump_reserve_mem(void)
 		return;
 	}
 
+	variable_reserve_size = phyp_dump_calculate_reserve_size();
+
 	if (phyp_dump_info->phyp_dump_is_active) {
 		/* Reserve *everything* above RMR.Area freed by userland tools*/
-		base = PHYP_DUMP_RMR_END;
+		base = variable_reserve_size;
 		size = lmb_end_of_DRAM() - base;
 
 		/* XXX crashed_ram_end is wrong, since it may be beyond
@@ -1079,7 +1110,7 @@ static void __init phyp_dump_reserve_mem(void)
 	} else {
 		size = phyp_dump_info->cpu_state_size +
 			phyp_dump_info->hpte_region_size +
-			PHYP_DUMP_RMR_END;
+			variable_reserve_size;
 		base = lmb_end_of_DRAM() - size;
 		lmb_reserve(base, size);
 		phyp_dump_info->init_reserve_start = base;