Bug 2065013

Summary: RHEL9[aarch64:ampere-mtjade-altra-*] kdump cannot reserve memory on mtjade machines
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Reporter: Jie Li <jieli>
Component: kexec-toolsAssignee: Pingfan Liu <piliu>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Jie Li <jieli>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact: Sujata Kurup <skurup>
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 9.0CC: bgoncalv, coxu, dyoung, efuller, lkuprova, piliu, ruyang, skurup, xiawu
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Triaged
Target Release: ---Flags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware: aarch64   
OS: Unspecified   
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.Allocating crash kernel memory fails at boot time On certain Ampere Altra systems, allocating the crash kernel memory for `kdump` usage fails during boot when the available memory is below 1 GB. Consequently, the `kdumpctl` command fails to start the `kdump` service. To workaround this problem, do one of the following: * Decrease the value of the `crashkernel` parameter by a minimum of 240 MB to fit the size requirement, for example `crashkernel=240M`. * Use the `crashkernel=x,high` option to reserve crash kernel memory above 4 GB for `kdump`. As a result, the crash kernel memory allocation for `kdump` does not fail on Ampere Altra systems.
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Last Closed: 2023-02-06 09:26:56 UTC Type: Bug
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Comment 7 Jaroslav Klech 2022-04-04 12:13:30 UTC
Re-assiging to Sujata

Comment 28 Pingfan Liu 2022-12-30 13:50:05 UTC
It should share the same solution with https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2112877.

Now the kernel can automatically fall back to a proper region to reserve the crash region