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: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:32:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311672756.4146.1.camel@br98xy6r> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110725180714.GC11009@redhat.com>
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 14:07 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 05:26:32PM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> > 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]
>
> I think it could be memap= style. elfcorehdr=X[KMG]@Y[KMG]. Though to
> support backward compatibility we will have to support old format of
> plain elfcorehdr=X too.
Ok, fine. I will add a patch for that.
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-26 9:32 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
2011-07-25 18:07 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-26 9:32 ` Michael Holzheu [this message]
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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