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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, nhorman@redhat.com,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	amwang@redhat.com, bernhard.walle@gmx.de, fenghua.yu@intel.com,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, avorontsov@ru.mvista.com
Subject: Re: [Patch 1/8] kexec: allow to shrink reserved memory
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:17:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090821171738.304fe91e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090821065650.4855.53279.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:54:25 -0400
Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> wrote:

> +size_t get_crash_memory_size(void)
> +int shrink_crash_memory(unsigned long new_size)

These aren't particualrly well-chosen global identifiers.  It would be
better if they were called crash_*() or kexec_*(), to make it clear
which subsystem they belong to.


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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, nhorman@redhat.com,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	amwang@redhat.com, bernhard.walle@gmx.de, fenghua.yu@intel.com,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, avorontsov@ru.mvista.com
Subject: Re: [Patch 1/8] kexec: allow to shrink reserved memory
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:17:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090821171738.304fe91e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090821065650.4855.53279.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:54:25 -0400
Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> wrote:

> +size_t get_crash_memory_size(void)
> +int shrink_crash_memory(unsigned long new_size)

These aren't particualrly well-chosen global identifiers.  It would be
better if they were called crash_*() or kexec_*(), to make it clear
which subsystem they belong to.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-22  0:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-21  6:54 [Patch 0/8] V4 Implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21  6:54 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21  6:54 ` [Patch 1/8] kexec: allow to shrink reserved memory Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21  6:54   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-22  0:17   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-08-22  0:17     ` Andrew Morton
2009-08-24  1:36     ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-24  1:36       ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-22  1:39   ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-22  1:39     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-24  2:02     ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-24  2:02       ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21  6:54 ` [Patch 2/8] x86: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21  6:54   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21  6:54 ` [Patch 3/8] x86: implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21  6:54   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21  6:54 ` [Patch 4/8] ia64: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21  6:54   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21  6:55 ` [Patch 5/8] ia64: implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21  6:55   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-22  0:24   ` Andrew Morton
2009-08-22  0:24     ` Andrew Morton
2009-08-22 11:18     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-22 11:18       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-24  2:05       ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-24  2:05         ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-24  7:43         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-24  7:43           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-24  8:21           ` Bernhard Walle
2009-08-24  8:21             ` Bernhard Walle
2009-08-24 10:23             ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-24 10:23               ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-24  1:59     ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-24  1:59       ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21  6:55 ` [Patch 6/8] powerpc: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21  6:55   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-24 13:44   ` Michael Ellerman
2009-08-24 13:44     ` Michael Ellerman
2009-08-24 14:45     ` M. Mohan Kumar
2009-08-24 14:57       ` M. Mohan Kumar
2009-08-25  6:37       ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-25  6:37         ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-25 10:24         ` M. Mohan Kumar
2009-08-25 10:36           ` M. Mohan Kumar
2009-08-25  6:23     ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-25  6:23       ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-25 10:28       ` M. Mohan Kumar
2009-08-25 10:40         ` M. Mohan Kumar
2009-08-26  6:59         ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-26  6:59           ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21  6:55 ` [Patch 7/8] powerpc: implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21  6:55   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21  6:55 ` [Patch 8/8] doc: update the kdump document Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21  6:55   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-22  0:06 ` [Patch 0/8] V4 Implement crashkernel=auto Andrew Morton
2009-08-22  0:06   ` Andrew Morton
2009-08-22  0:06   ` Andrew Morton
2009-08-24  1:34   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-24  1:34     ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-24  1:34     ` Amerigo Wang

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