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Subject: Re: [2/3] powerpc/fadump: add support to specify memory range based
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To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
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From: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On 05/07/2016 09:41 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-06-05 at 11:50:37 UTC, Hari Bathini wrote:
>> Currently, memory for fadump can be specified with fadump_reserve_mem=size,
>> where only a fixed size can be specified. This patch tries to extend this
>> syntax to support conditional reservation based on memory size, with the
>> below syntax:
>>
>> 	fadump_reserve_mem=<range1>:<size1>[,<range2>:<size2>,...]
>>
>> This syntax helps using the same commandline parameter for different system
>> memory sizes.
> This is basically using the crashkernel= syntax right?

Yep. One of the typical crashkernel syntax..

> So can we please reuse the crashkernel= parsing code?

but crashkernel has a few other variants which don't make sense
for fadump. To reuse the crashkernel parsing code for fadump,
it needs little bit of refactoring. Will try to do that and respin..

> cheers
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