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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 6/8] powerpc: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:55:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090821065739.4855.19179.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090821065637.4855.32234.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>


Introduce a new config option KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE for powerpc.

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

---

Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -346,6 +346,17 @@ 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. On PPC, 256M is reserved, 1/32 memory
+	  on PPC64, but it will not exceed 1T/32.
+
 config CRASH_DUMP
 	bool "Build a kdump crash kernel"
 	depends on PPC64 || 6xx

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-21  6:56 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 ` [Patch 4/8] ia64: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21  6:55 ` [Patch 5/8] ia64: implement crashkernel=auto 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 ` Amerigo Wang [this message]
2009-08-24 13:44   ` [Patch 6/8] powerpc: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE 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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