From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([2001:1868:205::10] helo=mail.zytor.com) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1U0hrT-0002j5-DM for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:18:39 +0000 Message-ID: <5109B855.1070600@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:18:29 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Cleanup kdump memmap= passing and e820 usage References: <1358866935-18458-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> <51099A3E.5090705@zytor.com> <87ehh2l2z3.fsf@xmission.com> <2271353.GLUCBHDxBG@hammer82.arch.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <2271353.GLUCBHDxBG@hammer82.arch.suse.de> 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-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Thomas Renninger Cc: x86@kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, Simon Horman , "Eric W. Biederman" , yinghai@kernel.org, vgoyal@redhat.com On 01/30/2013 04:15 PM, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > I guess both ways are a huge enhancement compared to what we have now. > Which approach to finally take should not matter that much, but because > of above I still prefer to go this way: > - Pass a kernel command line option that just changes the kernels idea > of which memory it can touch > The kernel command line is a human-oriented data structure with limited size and fairly complex semantics. -hpa _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec