[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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