From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amerigo Wang Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:19:51 +0000 Subject: [Patch 5/7] powerpc: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Message-Id: <20090805112211.6552.58889.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <20090805112123.6552.73574.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20090805112123.6552.73574.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Neil Horman , "Eric W. Biederman" , Amerigo Wang , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar , Anton Vorontsov Introduce a new config option KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE for powerpc. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong --- Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/Kconfig =================================--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/Kconfig +++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/Kconfig @@ -346,6 +346,16 @@ config KEXEC support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made. +config KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE + bool "automatically reserve memory for kexec kernel" + depends on KEXEC + default y + ---help--- + Automatically reserve memory for a kexec kernel, so that you don't + need to specify numbers for the "crashkernel=X@Y" boot option, + instead you can use "crashkernel=auto". + On PPC, 256M is reserved and only when you have memory > 4G. + config CRASH_DUMP bool "Build a kdump crash kernel" depends on PPC64 || 6xx