From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from kirsty.vergenet.net ([202.4.237.240]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1UCh4P-00076R-9N for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:53:33 +0000 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 10:53:30 +0900 From: Simon Horman Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec x86: drop truncation warning for crash kernel Message-ID: <20130305015330.GC28547@verge.net.au> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Cliff Wickman Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:00:07PM -0600, Cliff Wickman wrote: > From: Cliff Wickman > > On kexec set-up of a crash kernel on a very large memory machine we > sometimes see the worrisome warning: > Too many memory ranges, truncating... > meaning that the total count of e820 ram, reserved and ACPI spaces is over 128. > > Per the comment in do_bzImage_load(): > /* If using bzImage for capture kernel, then we will not be > * executing real mode code. setup segment can be loaded > * anywhere as we will be just reading command line. > */ > So if I understand, the e820 table built here and added to the 'real_mode' > area is not going to be used. > So the warning message can be omitted. Thanks, applied. _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec