From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle@gmx.de>
Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.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 03:49:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1k5182dl7.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090813090335.GA9502@mail1.bwalle.de> (Bernhard Walle's message of "Thu\, 13 Aug 2009 11\:03\:35 +0200")
Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle@gmx.de> writes:
> * Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> [2009-08-13 10:19]:
>> Sure.
>>
>> But if we disable CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE, that means
>> crashkernel=auto will be invalid, this is the same as it is now.
>
> Ok, but since 'crashkernel=auto' is not used today, nobody has
> 'crashkernel=auto' in the bootloader configuration. So I don't see any
> practial advantage of that config option.
>
> Eric, what's your opinion on that, do we need a config option
> CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE or could we just implement that feature
> unconditionally (if CONFIG_KEXEC is enabled, of course).
The only reason I can see the option going away would be
a dependency on CONFIG_HOTPLUG_MEM.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-13 10:49 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
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 [this message]
2009-08-14 2:59 ` Amerigo Wang
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