In commit:

  ec776ef6 ("x86/mm: Add support for the non-standard protected e820 type")

Christoph references the original patch I wrote implementing pmem support.
The intent of the 'max_pfn' changes in that commit were to enable persistent
memory ranges to be covered by the struct page memmap by default.

However, that approach was abandoned when Christoph ported the patches [1], and
that functionality has since been replaced by devm_memremap_pages().

In the meantime, this max_pfn manipulation is confusing kdump [2] that
assumes that everything covered by the max_pfn is "System RAM".  This
results in kdump hanging or crashing.

 [1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2015-March/000348.html
 [2]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1351098

So fix it.
Reported-by: Zhang Yi <yizhan@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Zhang Yi <yizhan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.1 and later kernels
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Fixes: ec776ef6 ("x86/mm: Add support for the non-standard protected e820 type")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147448744538.34910.11287693517367139607.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>