From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
ebiederm@xmission.com, hbabu@us.ibm.com,
mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp,
horms@verge.net.au, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] kdump: Patch series for s390 support
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:26:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311348392.5772.56.camel@br98xy6r> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110718152532.GF31986@redhat.com>
Hello Vivek,
Still thinking how we best get elfcorehdr size...
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 11:25 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 04:44:13PM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> You could do that but I think a more generic parameter will make more
> sense.
>
> - Either something along the lines of memmap=
> - Or excludemem=x@y
> - Or modify memory map in s390 specific bootloading protocol block etc.
Wouldn't it be most natural to pass the length along with the address of
the ELF core header? What about extending the kernel elfcorehdr kernel
parameter and adding optional size:
elfcorehdr=<addr>[KMG],<size>[KMG]
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-22 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-04 17:09 [patch 0/9] kdump: Patch series for s390 support Michael Holzheu
2011-07-04 17:09 ` [patch 1/9] kdump: Add KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT Michael Holzheu
2011-07-04 17:09 ` [patch 2/9] kdump: Add machine_kexec_finish() Michael Holzheu
2011-07-04 17:09 ` [patch 3/9] kdump: Make kimage_load_crash_segment() weak Michael Holzheu
2011-07-04 17:09 ` [patch 4/9] kdump: Initialize vmcoreinfo note at startup Michael Holzheu
2011-07-04 17:09 ` [patch 5/9] kdump: Allow vmcore ELF header to be created in new kernel Michael Holzheu
2011-07-04 17:09 ` [patch 6/9] kdump: Merge set_vmcore_list_offsets_elf_32/64() Michael Holzheu
2011-07-04 17:09 ` [patch 7/9] kdump: Trigger kdump via panic notifier chain on s390 Michael Holzheu
2011-07-04 17:09 ` [patch 8/9] s390: kdump backend code Michael Holzheu
2011-07-04 17:09 ` [patch 9/9] kexec-tools: Add s390 kdump support Michael Holzheu
2011-07-05 20:26 ` [patch 0/9] kdump: Patch series for s390 support Vivek Goyal
2011-07-06 9:24 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-07 19:33 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-08 9:01 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2011-07-11 14:42 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-11 15:56 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2011-07-13 16:02 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-13 16:46 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2011-07-13 16:59 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-13 17:19 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-13 20:00 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-14 7:18 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2011-07-14 17:55 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-14 18:05 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-15 14:21 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-15 14:38 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-15 15:43 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-18 12:31 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-18 14:00 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-18 14:19 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-18 14:44 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-18 15:25 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-18 18:03 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-19 15:04 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-20 8:00 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2011-07-20 9:28 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-20 20:24 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-20 19:25 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-21 14:58 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-21 21:22 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-22 9:33 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-25 16:02 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-26 9:44 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-22 15:26 ` Michael Holzheu [this message]
2011-07-25 18:07 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-26 9:32 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-15 13:56 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-15 14:18 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-18 13:57 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2011-07-08 13:04 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-11 15:36 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-12 17:29 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-08 14:02 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-11 14:07 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-11 15:06 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-09 17:58 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-07-12 13:52 ` Vivek Goyal
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