From: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [3/3] powerpc/fadump: add support for fadump_nr_cpus= parameter
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 15:05:58 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <573059FE.7080706@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3r1wGk6H7Yz9t3k@ozlabs.org>
On 05/07/2016 09:42 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-06-05 at 11:51:08 UTC, Hari Bathini wrote:
>> Kernel parameter 'nr_cpus' can be used to limit the maximum number
>> of processors that an SMP kernel could support. This patch extends
>> this to fadump by introducing 'fadump_nr_cpus' parameter that can
>> help in booting fadump kernel on a lower memory footprint.
> Is there really no other way to do this? I really hate adding new, single use
> only command line parameters.
Hmmm.. only alternative I can think about is enforcing a certain nr_cpu_ids
value whenever fadump is active, but that doesn't sound right..
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Hari
> cheers
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-09 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-06 11:50 [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/fadump: set an upper limit for the default memory reserved for fadump Hari Bathini
2016-05-06 11:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc/fadump: add support to specify memory range based size Hari Bathini
2016-05-07 4:11 ` [2/3] " Michael Ellerman
2016-05-09 9:37 ` Hari Bathini
2016-05-06 11:51 ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/fadump: add support for fadump_nr_cpus= parameter Hari Bathini
2016-05-07 4:12 ` [3/3] " Michael Ellerman
2016-05-09 9:35 ` Hari Bathini [this message]
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