From: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, nhorman@redhat.com,
ebiederm@xmission.com, andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@elte.hu,
bernhard.walle@gmx.de, fenghua.yu@intel.com,
kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, avorontsov@ru.mvista.com
Subject: Re: [Patch 1/8] kexec: allow to shrink reserved memory
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:36:42 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A91EEAA.4070200@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090821171738.304fe91e.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:54:25 -0400
> Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
>> +size_t get_crash_memory_size(void)
>> +int shrink_crash_memory(unsigned long new_size)
>>
>
> These aren't particualrly well-chosen global identifiers. It would be
> better if they were called crash_*() or kexec_*(), to make it clear
> which subsystem they belong to.
>
>
Ah, good poi nt!
How about crash_get_memory_size() and crash_shrink_memory()?
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-24 1:35 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 [this message]
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 ` [Patch 6/8] powerpc: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Amerigo Wang
2009-08-24 13:44 ` 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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