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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: David VomLehn <dvomlehn@cisco.com>,
	dedekind1@gmail.com, Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>,
	Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>,
	linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	dwm2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] panic-note: Annotation from user space for panics
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:07:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1vdh7byva.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1258505777.3081.4.camel@calx> (Matt Mackall's message of "Tue\, 17 Nov 2009 18\:56\:17 -0600")

Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> writes:

> As much as I like kexec, it loses on memory footprint by about 100x.
> It's not appropriate for all use cases, especially things like
> consumer-grade wireless access points and phones.

In general I agree.  The cost of a second kernel and initrd can be
prohibitive in the smallest systems, and if you do a crash capture
with using a standalone app that is reinventing the wheel.

That said.  I can happily run kdump with only 16M-20M reserved.
So on many systems the cost is affordable.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-18 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-12  2:13 [PATCH, RFC] panic-note: Annotation from user space for panics David VomLehn
2009-11-12 18:00 ` Marco Stornelli
2009-11-12 21:56   ` David VomLehn
2009-11-13  8:10     ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-11-13 11:45       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-11-13 11:59         ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-11-13 14:16           ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-11-14  8:28         ` Marco Stornelli
2009-11-17  8:53           ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-11-17 12:45             ` Marco Stornelli
2009-11-17 13:10               ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-11-17 15:45                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-17 23:56                   ` David VomLehn
2009-11-18  0:28                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-18  0:53                       ` David VomLehn
2009-11-18  9:01                         ` Américo Wang
2009-11-18 17:01                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-18  0:56                       ` Matt Mackall
2009-11-18 16:07                         ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2009-11-18 17:52                           ` Tim Bird
2009-11-18 18:16                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-18  8:26                   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-11-17 17:53                 ` Marco Stornelli
2009-11-12 18:06 ` Matt Mackall
2009-11-12 21:58   ` David VomLehn
2009-11-13 11:35   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-11-12 19:50 ` Paul Gortmaker
2009-11-12 22:09   ` David VomLehn
2009-11-13 11:50     ` Shargorodsky Atal (EXT-Teleca/Helsinki)
2009-11-13 11:26 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-11-17  9:03 ` Artem Bityutskiy

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