[PATCH 0/3] Cleanup kdump memmap= passing and e820 usage

[Thomas Renninger]

On Friday, February 08, 2013 12:25:14 PM Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Thomas Renninger <trenn at suse.de> writes:
...
> > In a kernel which has the patch/functionality backported I would do
> > 
> > it like this then:
> >   - If the special kdump e820 type shows up, all memmap options from
> >   
> >     memmap=exactmap on are ignored and the kexec-tools passed
> >     e820 table is used just as it is.
> >     -> This would still allow e820 modifcations through memmap=
> >     if passed manually for debugging, they just have to show up before
> >     the kexec-tools generated ones. Anyway, I will also send a patch
> >     how I think this can be backported and still work with old and new
> >     kexec-tools versions.
> 
> Way over complicated.  kexec-tools can just stop passing the memmap=
> options entirely for every kernel.
Ah yes, sure. This is really nice.
I hope things work out like that, I'll report back next week.

Have a nice week-end,

  Thomas