From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934236AbZHELUp (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:20:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934196AbZHELUo (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:20:44 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:41981 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933774AbZHELUn (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:20:43 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:19:51 -0400 From: Amerigo Wang 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 Message-Id: <20090805112211.6552.58889.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20090805112123.6552.73574.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> References: <20090805112123.6552.73574.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> Subject: [Patch 5/7] powerpc: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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