[PATCH] x86: Find offset for crashkernel reservation automatically
Ingo Molnar
mingo at elte.hu
Thu Jul 3 09:14:56 EDT 2008
* Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de> wrote:
> > > But in general policy should go in userspace (if possible), so I
> > > agree with you that kexec-tools can handle that.
> >
> > At a quick skim the patch looks good. I thought I had initially
> > implemented the code to work this way but apparently in all of the
> > churn that aspect of it got lost.
> >
> > Let's start with trying to allocate the memory as low as possible
> > for a crash kernel (I think you are already doing that).
>
> Yes, in 95 % of the cases the crashkernel still gets reserved at 16M.
ok - i've applied it to tip/x86/crashdump - thanks Bernhard.
Ingo
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