From: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, bernhard.walle@gmx.de,
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Subject: [Patch 4/8] ia64: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:54:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090821065719.4855.68203.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090821065637.4855.32234.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>
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>
---
Index: linux-2.6/arch/ia64/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- 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)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-21 6:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-21 6:54 [Patch 0/8] V4 Implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21 6:54 ` [Patch 1/8] kexec: allow to shrink reserved memory Amerigo Wang
2009-08-22 0:17 ` Andrew Morton
2009-08-24 1:36 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-22 1:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-24 2:02 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21 6:54 ` [Patch 2/8] x86: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21 6:54 ` [Patch 3/8] x86: implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21 6:54 ` Amerigo Wang [this message]
2009-08-21 6:55 ` [Patch 5/8] ia64: " Amerigo Wang
2009-08-22 0:24 ` Andrew Morton
2009-08-22 11:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-24 2:05 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-24 7:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-24 8:21 ` Bernhard Walle
2009-08-24 10:23 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-24 1:59 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21 6:55 ` [Patch 6/8] powerpc: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Amerigo Wang
2009-08-24 13:44 ` Michael Ellerman
2009-08-24 14:45 ` M. Mohan Kumar
2009-08-25 6:37 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-25 10:24 ` M. Mohan Kumar
2009-08-25 6:23 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-25 10:28 ` M. Mohan Kumar
2009-08-26 6:59 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21 6:55 ` [Patch 7/8] powerpc: implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21 6:55 ` [Patch 8/8] doc: update the kdump document Amerigo Wang
2009-08-22 0:06 ` [Patch 0/8] V4 Implement crashkernel=auto Andrew Morton
2009-08-24 1:34 ` Amerigo Wang
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