From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nhorman@redhat.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] kexec: increase max of kexec segments and use dynamic allocation
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:28:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1wrso2foi.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100722061810.5659.87609.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> (Amerigo Wang's message of "Thu\, 22 Jul 2010 02\:13\:55 -0400")
Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> writes:
> Currently KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX is only 16 which is too small for machine with
> many memory ranges. Increase this hard limit to 1024 which is reasonably large,
> and change ->segment from a static array to a dynamically allocated memory.
???
This should be about segments in the executable being loaded. What
executable has one segment for each range of physical memory?
Not that generalizing this is a bad idea but with a comment that
seems entirely wrong I am wondering what the problem really is.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-22 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-22 6:13 [Patch] kexec: increase max of kexec segments and use dynamic allocation Amerigo Wang
2010-07-22 6:28 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2010-07-22 6:40 ` Cong Wang
2010-07-22 7:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-23 2:57 ` huang ying
2010-07-25 2:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-26 10:11 ` Cong Wang
2010-07-26 12:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-27 8:14 ` Cong Wang
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