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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: jdmason@kudzu.us, kexec@lists.infradead.org, horms@verge.net.au,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, hpa@zytor.com, dyoung@redhat.com,
	WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] kexec-tools, x86: E820 memmap pass for kdump
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:45:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140224154518.GE4631@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1972414.2B2S29ZK0k@skinner>

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 04:34:26PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote:

[..]
> > > How could this replace saved_max_pfn? The highest memory in kdump can't
> > > necessarily be the real ram size. In kdump, RAM range is just part of the
> > > real ram, not mentioning we don't pass RESERVED range to kdump E820.
> I expected you pass RAM that must not be used as RESERVED. Then, still 
> depending on which mem type is the last one, it might have worked.

No we don't. There is a proposal though to pass first kernel's reserved
ranges to second kernel as SGI folks need that somehow.

Thanks
Vivek

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-24 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-20  9:28 [PATCH v2 0/4] kexec-tools, x86: E820 memmap pass for kdump WANG Chao
2014-02-20  9:28 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] cleanup: add dbgprint_mem_range function WANG Chao
2014-02-20  9:28 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Store memory ranges globally used for crash kernel to boot into WANG Chao
2014-02-20  9:28 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] x86: add --pass-memmap-cmdline option WANG Chao
2014-02-20  9:28 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] x86: Pass memory range via E820 for kdump WANG Chao
2014-02-27 20:53   ` Linn Crosetto
2014-02-28  8:32     ` WANG Chao
2014-02-24 10:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] kexec-tools, x86: E820 memmap pass " Thomas Renninger
2014-02-24 14:58   ` WANG Chao
2014-02-24 15:03     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-24 15:11       ` Vivek Goyal
2014-02-24 15:24         ` Vivek Goyal
2014-02-24 15:28           ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-24 15:22     ` Vivek Goyal
2014-02-24 15:27       ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-24 15:34       ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-24 15:45         ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2014-02-24 15:50           ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-24 15:59             ` Vivek Goyal

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