From: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch 0/8] V3 Implement crashkernel=auto
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:49:45 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A837F49.9060003@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090812124659.GA4808@mail1.bwalle.de>
Bernhard Walle wrote:
> * Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> [2009-08-12 10:15]:
>
>> This series of patch implements automatically reserved memory for crashkernel,
>> by introducing a new boot option "crashkernel=auto". This idea is from Neil.
>>
>
> Honestly I don't see why everything is guarded by
> CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE. We do we need that new configuration
> option? I mean, if I don't specify 'crashkernel=auto', then the patch
> does nothing, right? Then the option CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE would
> only be needed so save some bytes of code. Is that really worth it?
>
Hi, CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE is not for saving bytes, it just provides
a choice for the user to decide to enable it or not.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-13 2:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-12 8:15 [Patch 0/8] V3 Implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-12 8:15 ` [Patch 1/8] x86: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Amerigo Wang
2009-08-12 8:15 ` [Patch 2/8] x86: implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-12 8:15 ` [Patch 3/8] ia64: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Amerigo Wang
2009-08-12 8:15 ` [Patch 4/8] ia64: implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-12 8:16 ` [Patch 5/8] powerpc: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Amerigo Wang
2009-08-12 8:16 ` [Patch 6/8] powerpc: implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-12 8:16 ` [Patch 7/8] doc: update the kdump document Amerigo Wang
2009-08-12 8:16 ` [Patch 8/8] kexec: allow to shrink reserved memory Amerigo Wang
2009-08-13 3:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-13 3:32 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-13 6:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-13 8:23 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-14 22:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-17 9:50 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-18 0:29 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-08-18 6:31 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-18 8:25 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-08-18 8:51 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-18 10:35 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-18 23:57 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-08-19 2:41 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-19 8:13 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-08-19 10:47 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-20 9:15 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21 0:34 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-08-21 1:59 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21 2:03 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-08-21 2:47 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-12 12:46 ` [Patch 0/8] V3 Implement crashkernel=auto Bernhard Walle
2009-08-13 2:49 ` Amerigo Wang [this message]
2009-08-13 5:39 ` Bernhard Walle
2009-08-13 8:19 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-13 9:03 ` Bernhard Walle
2009-08-13 10:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-14 2:59 ` Amerigo Wang
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