[Patch 3/8] ia64: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE

[Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>]

Introduce a new config option KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE for ia64.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

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Index: linux-2.6/arch/ia64/Kconfig
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--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/ia64/Kconfig
+++ linux-2.6/arch/ia64/Kconfig
@@ -582,6 +582,20 @@ 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". To make this work, you need
+	  to have more than 4G memory.
+
+	  The reserved memory size is different depends on how much memory
+	  you actually have. Please check Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt.
+	  If you doubt, say N.
+
 config CRASH_DUMP
 	  bool "kernel crash dumps"
 	  depends on IA64_MCA_RECOVERY && !IA64_HP_SIM && (!SMP || HOTPLUG_CPU)