From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:10:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130311211050.GA16843@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <513E41BD.3030003@zytor.com>
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 01:42:37PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 03/11/2013 01:38 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >
> > I totally makes sense to figure out how to load a kernel high. I am not
> > convinced kexec on panic is the best use of that ability. I would argue
> > that it might be better to figure out how to use a small memory
> > foot-print and try to keep that foot-print from growing.
> >
>
> I could not agree more with this. The whole reason this is a problem is
> because we are talking about hundreds of megabytes of crashkernel. If
> we can fix *that* problem, we are much better off.
This kind of goal is achievable only if we also restrict how much memory
first kernel can use. Then all the dependent component will be aware of
how severe boot requirements are. And there is no such requirement. It is
just a goal that keep memory bloat to the minimum. But bloat does not mean
that booting is not allowed. To me kdump environment requirement should be
no different. Otherwise enforcing them becomes a challenge.
Thanks
Vivek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-11 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-08 5:54 3.9-rc1: crash kernel panic - not syncing: Can not allocate SWIOTLB buffer earlier and can't now provide you with the DMA bounce buffer WANG Chao
2013-03-08 6:03 ` CAI Qian
2013-03-08 6:32 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 6:36 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 7:20 ` WANG Chao
2013-03-08 7:27 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 7:33 ` WANG Chao
2013-03-08 7:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 12:12 ` WANG Chao
2013-03-08 18:24 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 19:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 3:42 ` WANG Chao
2013-03-11 4:56 ` [PATCH] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 14:48 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 15:02 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 17:58 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 18:26 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 18:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 18:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 18:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 18:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 19:06 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 19:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 19:08 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 19:20 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 20:12 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 20:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 20:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 20:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-11 20:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 21:10 ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2013-03-11 21:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 20:45 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 20:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 21:03 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 21:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-12 13:46 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-12 8:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-03-11 20:57 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 21:06 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 21:15 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 19:10 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:34 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 19:38 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 19:44 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-18 14:46 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-18 15:33 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-18 19:05 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-18 19:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-18 20:00 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-18 21:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-18 21:25 ` [PATCH v3] " Yinghai Lu
2013-03-18 22:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-18 23:26 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-19 0:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-19 1:04 ` [PATCH v4] " Yinghai Lu
2013-03-19 13:33 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-19 15:05 ` [PATCH v5] " Yinghai Lu
2013-03-20 13:08 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-20 15:53 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-20 16:03 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-20 16:21 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-20 16:31 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-20 19:22 ` [PATCH] kexec: use Crash kernel for Crash kernel low Yinghai Lu
2013-03-25 19:42 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-25 21:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-26 18:14 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-01 13:34 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-01 18:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-01 19:26 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-01 20:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-01 21:10 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-01 22:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-01 22:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-01 22:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-01 22:40 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 1:11 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 13:50 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-02 14:17 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-02 14:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 14:45 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 14:58 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-02 15:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 15:39 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-02 15:46 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 15:50 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-02 17:21 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 13:30 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:14 ` [PATCH] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-11 19:22 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 20:17 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 19:02 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 19:17 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 13:14 ` 3.9-rc1: crash kernel panic - not syncing: Can not allocate SWIOTLB buffer earlier and can't now provide you with the DMA bounce buffer Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-08 7:52 ` Takao Indoh
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