Re: [Patch 0/7] Implement crashkernel=auto

Amerigo Wang
2009-08-06T01:37:38Z

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> writes:
>
>
>> This series of patch implements automatically reserved memory for crashkernel,
>> by introducing a new boot option "crashkernel=auto". This idea is from Neil.
>>
>> In case of breaking user-space applications, it modifies this boot option after
>> it decides how much memory should be reserved.
>>
>> On different arch, the threshold and reserved memory size is different. Please
>> refer patch 7/7 which contains an update for the documentation.
>>
>> Note: This patchset was only tested on x86_64 with differernt memory sizes.
>>
>
> This seems like a silly hard code. Especially for a feature distros don't
> care enough about to implement a working initrd for.
>
> Has anyone bothered to justify those large amounts of memory?
> Where does the 128M go?
>

If 128M is too big, we can make it to be 64M, that is no problem.
I am very open to this. :)

> Please pardon me for being a cynic but I don't see the command line option
> being the bottleneck for real users to make this work.
>
>
Well, take /me as an example, to be honest, I still have no idea how
much memory I should reserve for s390/sh, if I would use kdump on sh, it
*is* my bottleneck.

Thanks.