From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755944Ab0JGUof (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:44:35 -0400 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:22629 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755211Ab0JGUod (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:44:33 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,298,1283756400"; d="scan'208";a="333484537" Message-ID: <4CAE3130.4010908@intel.com> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:44:32 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100921 Fedora/3.1.4-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vivek Goyal CC: "mingo@redhat.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "yinghai@kernel.org" , "caiqian@redhat.com" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org" , Kexec Mailing List Subject: Re: [tip:core/memblock] x86, memblock: Fix crashkernel allocation References: <4CABAF2A.5090501@kernel.org> <20101006151449.GA7378@redhat.com> <4CACF531.2060407@intel.com> <20101006224704.GD7378@redhat.com> <4CAD01A9.9050907@intel.com> <20101007181804.GE23308@redhat.com> <4CAE1767.5040409@intel.com> <20101007192129.GC2581@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20101007192129.GC2581@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/07/2010 12:21 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote: >> >> It would be easy enough to either deprecate or make it an alias for >> crashkernel=...<896M, which is basically what Yinghai's patch does. > > Agreed. > > So Yinghai's patch is fine. I need to write a patch for introducing > crashkernel=X Sounds like a plan. Thanks! -hpa