Re: [PATCH] x86, kdump: crashkernel=X try to reserve below 896M first, then try below 4G, then MAXMEM

Yinghai Lu
2013-10-24T19:25:20Z

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:15:25PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> Also keeping things simple by not trying to *impose* a new crashkernel=
> syntax on existing crashkernel=xM users.

Existing user that have crashkernel=xM working with their old kernel
and old kexec-tools, they still could keep their old command line and
old kexec-tools
with new updated kernel.
We should not change semantics to surprise them.

Thanks

Yinghai