Commit-ID:  a8d4c8246b290ce97f88752d833804843041ac84
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/a8d4c8246b290ce97f88752d833804843041ac84
Author:     Xunlei Pang <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:48:23 +0800
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:57:55 +0100

x86/crash: Update the stale comment in reserve_crashkernel()

CRASH_KERNEL_ADDR_MAX has been missing for a long time,
update it with a more detailed explanation.

Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Young <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert LeBlanc <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 4cfba94..eb69b14 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -575,7 +575,9 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
        /* 0 means: find the address automatically */
        if (crash_base <= 0) {
                /*
-                *  kexec want bzImage is below CRASH_KERNEL_ADDR_MAX
+                * Set CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX upper bound for crash memory,
+                * as old kexec-tools loads bzImage below that, unless
+                * "crashkernel=size[KMG],high" is specified.
                 */
                crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(CRASH_ALIGN,
                                                    high ? CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX

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