[patch v2 01/10] kdump: Add KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at redhat.com
Mon Aug 1 16:16:44 EDT 2011


On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 02:55:05PM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> On s390 there is a different KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT for the normal and
> the kdump kexec case. Therefore this patch introduces a new macro
> KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT. This is set to
> KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT for all architectures that do not define
> KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT.

Hi Michael,

Curious that why limit is different for kexec and kdump cases on s390
only.

Thanks
Vivek

> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/kexec.h |    4 ++++
>  kernel/kexec.c        |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/include/linux/kexec.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
> @@ -33,6 +33,10 @@
>  #error KEXEC_ARCH not defined
>  #endif
>  
> +#ifndef KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT
> +#define KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT
> +#endif
> +
>  #define KEXEC_NOTE_HEAD_BYTES ALIGN(sizeof(struct elf_note), 4)
>  #define KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME "CORE"
>  #define KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME_BYTES ALIGN(sizeof(KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME), 4)
> --- a/kernel/kexec.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec.c
> @@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ static struct page *kimage_alloc_crash_c
>  	while (hole_end <= crashk_res.end) {
>  		unsigned long i;
>  
> -		if (hole_end > KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT)
> +		if (hole_end > KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT)
>  			break;
>  		if (hole_end > crashk_res.end)
>  			break;



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