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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 12:30:03 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv7] x86/kdump: bugfix, make the behavior of crashkernel=X
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To: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>, bhe@redhat.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, x86@kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com>, Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, yinghai@kernel.org, vgoyal@redhat.com

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 07:12:16PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> If we move to high as default, it will allocate 160M high + 256M low. It

We won't move to high by default - we will *fall* back to high if the
default allocation fails.

> To make the process less fragile maybe we can remove the 896M limitation
> and only try <4G then go to high.

Sure, the more robust for the user, the better.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.

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