From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>, Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, horms@verge.net.au,
ebiederm@xmission.com, jdmason@kudzu.us, 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 07:50:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f0e5bc8f-8771-4faa-86a1-a46120a9aa1f@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140224154518.GE4631@redhat.com>
Not just SGI, I don't think. You definitely need to do this.
On February 24, 2014 7:45:19 AM PST, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> wrote:
>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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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
2014-02-24 15:50 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-02-24 15:59 ` Vivek Goyal
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