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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: yinghai@kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
	ebiederm@xmission.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] kexec-tools: Add cgroup_disable=memory to crash kernel parameters
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 10:48:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130528144821.GF7088@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130526132020.GE11134@verge.net.au>

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:20:21PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:57:36AM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > cgroup memory subsystem pre-allocates quite some memory at boot up.
> > Example dmesg:
> > allocated 469762048 bytes of page_cgroup
> > please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups
> > 
> > Due to maxcpu=1 it is by far not that much than in a productive kernel.
> > It still seem to be around 4M statically as no Numa overhead exists with
> > only one active CPU. It is still worth to disable cgroup memory
> > pre-allocating in crash kernel environment.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <Thomas Renninger" trenn@suse.de>
> 
> I'm not really sure this kind of logic should be hard-coded into
> kexec-tools. --append should allow callers of kexec to add this
> option if it is appropriate.

Agreed. cgroup_disable=memory is better not hard coded here. In F19
default config we have cgroup_disable=memory specified which is passed
to kexec-tools using --append option.

Thanks
Vivek

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      reply	other threads:[~2013-05-28 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-22  8:57 Different minor kexec cleanups Thomas Renninger
2013-05-22  8:57 ` [PATCH 1/4] kexec-tools: Cleanup: Fix indentation Thomas Renninger
2013-05-26 13:13   ` Simon Horman
2013-05-22  8:57 ` [PATCH 2/4] kexec-tools: Introduce dbg_memrange() macro and make use of it Thomas Renninger
2013-05-26 13:17   ` Simon Horman
2013-05-22  8:57 ` [PATCH 3/4] kexec-tools: Fix possible overflows and make use of dbg_memrange() macro Thomas Renninger
2013-05-26 13:16   ` Simon Horman
2013-05-22  8:57 ` [PATCH 4/4] kexec-tools: Add cgroup_disable=memory to crash kernel parameters Thomas Renninger
2013-05-26 13:20   ` Simon Horman
2013-05-28 14:48     ` Vivek Goyal [this message]

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