From: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
yinghai@kernel.org, vgoyal@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Cleanup kdump memmap= passing and e820 usage
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:08:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1855338.FfngI2qLCK@skinner.arch.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87obfx8115.fsf@xmission.com>
On Wednesday, February 06, 2013 03:39:50 PM Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
...
> >> My real preference would be to define a command line option that will
> >> work on all architectures that implement kdump, as the craskernel option
> >> does. Unfortunately it looks like that ship has sailed, and there isn't
> >> enough desire to fix this to come up with a generic option that will
> >> work on more than just x86. But if we could get past the kernel
> >> versioning and figure out a arch-generic solution it might be worth it.
> >
> > What would that option look like?
>
> Probably something like "usemem=<size>@<addr>,..."
If the e820 table approach is taken, x86 would not need any such
parameter at all anymore?
All the memmap= stuff can vanish only the elfcorehdr= param remains.
...
> >> The existing e820 handling for unknown type is much much better. It
> >> just treats them as reserved and goes about it's merry way.
If the new kdump type is treated as reserved and things work out,
I agree that this would be the most elegant approach, especially also
for backporting etc.
In a kernel which has the patch/functionality backported I would do
it like this then:
- If the special kdump e820 type shows up, all memmap options from
memmap=exactmap on are ignored and the kexec-tools passed
e820 table is used just as it is.
-> This would still allow e820 modifcations through memmap=
if passed manually for debugging, they just have to show up before
the kexec-tools generated ones. Anyway, I will also send a patch
how I think this can be backported and still work with old and new
kexec-tools versions.
> > It sounds like this is the way to go.
>
> It certainly looks good. We still need someone with the time to write
> the patch and test it.
I try to find time for this early next week to code something together and
already give it some testing, but I cannot promise anything.
Thanks everybody for the help to find the best solution,
Thomas
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-22 15:02 [PATCH 0/3] Make use of new memmap= kernel parameter syntax Thomas Renninger
2013-01-22 15:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] kexec: Split kernel_version() to also be able to pass a release string Thomas Renninger
2013-01-22 15:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] kexec x86: Extract kernel version and convert it to KERNEL_VERSION() style Thomas Renninger
2013-01-22 15:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] kexec x86: Make kexec aware of new memmap= kernel parameter possibilities Thomas Renninger
2013-01-30 4:31 ` [PATCH 0/3] Make use of new memmap= kernel parameter syntax Simon Horman
2013-01-30 5:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-30 5:52 ` Simon Horman
2013-01-30 16:03 ` Thomas Renninger
2013-01-30 16:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86 e820: Check for exactmap appearance when parsing first memmap option Thomas Renninger
2013-01-30 16:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-30 16:08 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: Introduce Linux kernel specific E820_RESERVED_KDUMP e820 memory range type Thomas Renninger
2013-01-30 16:10 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86 e820: Introduce memmap=kdump_reserve_usable for kdump usage Thomas Renninger
2013-01-30 16:10 ` [PATCH 0/3] Make use of new memmap= kernel parameter syntax H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-30 16:13 ` [PATCH 0/3] Cleanup kdump memmap= passing and e820 usage Thomas Renninger
2013-01-30 16:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-30 16:39 ` Thomas Renninger
2013-01-30 16:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-30 17:41 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-30 18:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-01-30 21:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-30 21:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-01-30 22:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-30 22:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-01-30 22:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-30 22:49 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-31 0:15 ` Thomas Renninger
2013-01-31 0:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-31 9:11 ` Thomas Renninger
2013-02-06 15:23 ` Thomas Renninger
2013-02-06 23:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-02-06 23:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-06 23:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-02-08 20:08 ` Thomas Renninger [this message]
2013-02-08 20:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-02-08 20:56 ` Thomas Renninger
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