[PATCH] x86: Find offset for crashkernel reservation automatically

Yinghai Lu yhlu.kernel at gmail.com
Mon Jul 14 15:08:30 EDT 2008


On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote:
> Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de> writes:
>
>> But such checks belong into kexec itself, not into the kernel.
>
> Exactly.
>
> All we should do in the kernel is bias the search for a low address.
> As that is more usable.

let kexec to uncompress the bzImage (need to check if header version
is 2.0.8(?) above?) , if the kdump_base is above 4g.

YH



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