[patch 1/7] Extended crashkernel command line

Oleg Verych olecom at flower.upol.cz
Sat Sep 22 19:14:00 EDT 2007


* Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:18:46 +0200

[]
>  extern u32 vmcoreinfo_note[VMCOREINFO_NOTE_SIZE/4];
>  extern unsigned int vmcoreinfo_size;
>  extern unsigned int vmcoreinfo_max_size;
> +int __init parse_crashkernel(char *cmdline, unsigned long long system_ram,
> +		unsigned long long *crash_size, unsigned long long *crash_base);

(BTW, why `system_ram' is `unsigned long' in parse_crashkernel_mem() but
`unsigned long long' in parse_crashkernel()?)

> +static int __init parse_crashkernel_mem(char 			*cmdline,
> +					unsigned long 		system_ram,
> +					unsigned long long 	*crash_size,
> +					unsigned long long 	*crash_base)
> +{
> +	char *cur = cmdline;
> +
> +	/* for each entry of the comma-separated list */
> +	do {
> +		unsigned long long start = 0, end = ULLONG_MAX;
> +		unsigned long long size = -1;
[]

What is the point of not using `ulong' and `u64'?

What about another names?

 +int __init get_crashkernel_params(u64 *memsize, u64 *addrbase, char *cmdline, u64 ram);
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