[patch 0/3] [x86] Fix crashkernel reservation on NUMA machines

Ingo Molnar mingo at elte.hu
Tue Jun 10 08:44:17 EDT 2008


* Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de> wrote:

> This patch series fixes the crashkernel reservation on NUMA machine. 
> The regression was discovered by Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com>.
> 
> The background is that on NUMA machines, reserve_bootmem_generic() is 
> required instead of reserve_bootmem(). To achieve that, it's necessary 
> to make a few API changes.
> 
> The patches are against latest linux-2.6 git. They should still go 
> into 2.6.26 since it's only bug fixing. For 2.6.27, we should unify 
> crashkernel reservation for i386 and x86-64.
> 
> Tested on both i386 and x86-64. Compilation was tested with both kexec 
> disabled and enabled. The change is x86 only, so no need to test on 
> other architectures.

applied to tip/x86/numa - thanks Bernhard.

	Ingo



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