From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][x86_64] Introducing the memmap= kernel command line option
Date: 15 Apr 2005 19:30:40 +0200
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 19:30:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050415173040.GK50241@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <425F5BA3.3050001@in.ibm.com>
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:43:55AM +0530, Hariprasad Nellitheertha wrote:
> Hi Andi,
>
> In order to port kdump to x86_64, we need to have the
> memmap= kernel command line option available. This is so
> that the dump-capture kernel can be booted with a custom
> memory map.
>
> The attached patch adds the memmap= functionality to the
> x86_64 kernel. It is against 2.6.12-rc2-mm3. I have done
> some amount of testing and it is working fine.
>
> Could you kindly review this patch and let me know your
> thoughts on it.
You should add a __setup somewhere, otherwise the kernel
will complain about unknown arguments or generate a memmap
variable in inits environment.
Comma parsing would be nice.
Otherwise it looks ok.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-15 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-15 6:13 [RFC][x86_64] Introducing the memmap= kernel command line option Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2005-04-15 17:30 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-04-18 12:47 ` Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2005-04-28 10:59 ` Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2005-04-28 11:00 ` [RFC][i386] Comma parsing for " Hariprasad Nellitheertha
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