From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
hbabu@us.ibm.com, oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp, horms@verge.net.au,
schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch v2 01/10] kdump: Add KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:51:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1312278664.4881.35.camel@br98xy6r> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110801201644.GG3805@redhat.com>
Hello Vivek,
On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 16:16 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 02:55:05PM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> > From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >
> > On s390 there is a different KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT for the normal and
> > the kdump kexec case. Therefore this patch introduces a new macro
> > KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT. This is set to
> > KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT for all architectures that do not define
> > KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT.
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Curious that why limit is different for kexec and kdump cases on s390
> only.
The standard kexec relocate_kernel code calls a machine instruction that
must run below 2 GiB. For kdump we currently do not use the control page
at all because no segments have to be moved in that case. Perhaps I am
still missing something here?
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-02 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-27 12:55 [patch v2 00/10] kdump: Patch series for s390 support (version 2) Michael Holzheu
2011-07-27 12:55 ` [patch v2 01/10] kdump: Add KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT Michael Holzheu
2011-08-01 20:16 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-02 9:51 ` Michael Holzheu [this message]
2011-08-02 19:16 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-03 9:27 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-27 12:55 ` [patch v2 02/10] kdump: Make kimage_load_crash_segment() weak Michael Holzheu
2011-08-01 20:31 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-02 9:30 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-08-02 18:55 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-03 10:41 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-08-04 20:25 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-27 12:55 ` [patch v2 03/10] kdump: Add size to elfcorehdr kernel parameter Michael Holzheu
2011-08-01 20:36 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-02 9:08 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-08-02 18:55 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-03 10:40 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-27 12:55 ` [patch v2 04/10] kdump: Trigger kdump via panic notifier chain on s390 Michael Holzheu
2011-08-01 20:41 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-02 8:37 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-08-02 19:21 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-03 9:50 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-08-04 21:14 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-08 17:47 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-08-09 21:19 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-07-27 12:55 ` [patch v2 05/10] s390: Add PSW restart shutdown trigger Michael Holzheu
2011-08-01 20:54 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-02 8:05 ` Michael Holzheu
2011-07-27 12:55 ` [patch v2 06/10] s390: Export store_status() function Michael Holzheu
2011-07-27 12:55 ` [patch v2 07/10] s390: Use diagnose 308 for system reset Michael Holzheu
2011-07-27 12:55 ` [patch v2 08/10] s390: Add real memory access functions Michael Holzheu
2011-07-27 12:55 ` [patch v2 09/10] s390: kdump backend code Michael Holzheu
2011-07-27 12:55 ` [patch v2 10/10] kexec-tools: Add s390 kdump support Michael Holzheu
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