From: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][x86_64] Introducing the memmap= kernel command line option
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:17:02 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4263AC46.5010703@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050415173040.GK50241@muc.de>
Andi Kleen wrote:
> 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.
Sure. Will add that.
>
> Comma parsing would be nice.
Will add this for i386 as well and send out another patch
>
> Otherwise it looks ok.
Thanks!
- Hari
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-18 12:47 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
2005-04-18 12:47 ` Hariprasad Nellitheertha [this message]
2005-04-28 10:59 ` Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2005-04-28 11:00 ` [RFC][i386] Comma parsing for " Hariprasad Nellitheertha
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