From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] Make is_kdump_kernel() accessible from modules Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:46:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20140729.164632.2258407062406773850.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1406473156-4077-1-git-send-email-amirv@mellanox.com> <877g2y9ulb.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com> <20140728122609.GB32337@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, amirv@mellanox.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ogerlitz@mellanox.com, yevgenyp@mellanox.com To: vgoyal@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:50378 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752030AbaG2Xqe (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:46:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140728122609.GB32337@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Vivek Goyal Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 08:26:09 -0400 > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 05:48:32PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: >> Amir Vadai writes: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm sending this patchset to net-next because it touches a commit [1] that was >> > applied lately to net-next. >> >> It would be better to have a generic function for "run with small >> memory", that can be also triggered in other ways, e.g. a sysctl or >> a boot opion, with kdump just another user. >> >> There are low memory cases which are not kdump. > > I am fine with a boot option to suggest low memory profile and kdump > scripts can be modified to automatically append that command line option > to second kernel. I'm therefore going to assume that this patch series will be updated when the new facility is added.