Re: [patch 0/9] kdump: Patch series for s390 support

Vivek Goyal
2011-07-25T18:07:20Z

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 05:26:32PM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> Hello Vivek,
>
> Still thinking how we best get elfcorehdr size...
>
> On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 11:25 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 04:44:13PM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> > You could do that but I think a more generic parameter will make more
> > sense.
> >
> > - Either something along the lines of memmap=
> > - Or excludemem=x@y
> > - Or modify memory map in s390 specific bootloading protocol block etc.
>
> Wouldn't it be most natural to pass the length along with the address of
> the ELF core header? What about extending the kernel elfcorehdr kernel
> parameter and adding optional size:
>
> elfcorehdr=<addr>[KMG],<size>[KMG]

I think it could be memap= style. elfcorehdr=X[KMG]@Y[KMG]. Though to
support backward compatibility we will have to support old format of
plain elfcorehdr=X too.

Thanks
Vivek