From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.68 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1KEOeW-0007dv-MS for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:15:13 +0000 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:14:56 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Find offset for crashkernel reservation automatically Message-ID: <20080703131456.GA12102@elte.hu> References: <1214510048-21215-1-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de> <20080627133256.GB5801@redhat.com> <20080627134212.GC5801@redhat.com> <20080627160656.06f71661@halley.suse.de> <20080627141910.GD5801@redhat.com> <20080627162223.2df5a8b9@halley.suse.de> <20080627202932.16634031@kopernikus.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080627202932.16634031@kopernikus.site> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Bernhard Walle Cc: x86@kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , Vivek Goyal , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Bernhard Walle wrote: > > > But in general policy should go in userspace (if possible), so I > > > agree with you that kexec-tools can handle that. > > > > At a quick skim the patch looks good. I thought I had initially > > implemented the code to work this way but apparently in all of the > > churn that aspect of it got lost. > > > > Let's start with trying to allocate the memory as low as possible > > for a crash kernel (I think you are already doing that). > > Yes, in 95 % of the cases the crashkernel still gets reserved at 16M. ok - i've applied it to tip/x86/crashdump - thanks Bernhard. Ingo _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec