From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752413AbZHMCuE (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:50:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751942AbZHMCuD (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:50:03 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:45093 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751838AbZHMCuB (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:50:01 -0400 Message-ID: <4A837F49.9060003@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:49:45 +0800 From: Amerigo Wang User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bernhard Walle CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Neil Horman , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andi Kleen , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Fenghua Yu , Ingo Molnar , Anton Vorontsov Subject: Re: [Patch 0/8] V3 Implement crashkernel=auto References: <20090812081731.5757.25254.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20090812124659.GA4808@mail1.bwalle.de> In-Reply-To: <20090812124659.GA4808@mail1.bwalle.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Amerigo Wang [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.