From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: yinghai@kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
vgoyal@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Make use of new memmap= kernel parameter syntax
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:31:00 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130130043100.GO28230@verge.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1358866935-18458-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de>
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 04:02:12PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> Details were discussed on quite some lists (kexec, lkml, x86, etc)
> in a kernel thread with subject:
> [PATCH] x86 e820: only void usable memory areas in memmap=exactmap case
>
> The patch that memmap= can take several arguments is already queued
> in linux-x86-tip in the mm2 branch.
>
> There have been no objections on the introduction to memmap=resetusablemap
> for several days after discussing things in detail. The repost patches
> (will do that now) propably will show up in x86-tip mainline kernel
> tree pretty soon as well.
> Target for this feature to show up in Linus' tree is 3.9-rc1.
> Therefore these patches check for 3.9.0 and newer kernels. If such a
> kernel is tried to get loaded via kexec -p, the new memmap= syntax is used.
>
> Please consider to apply these to the kexec-tools repository.
Hi Thomas,
could I check that the status of these patches is still as you describe above?
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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 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2013-01-30 5:40 ` [PATCH 0/3] Make use of new memmap= kernel parameter syntax 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
2013-02-08 20:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-02-08 20:56 ` Thomas Renninger
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