crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/24/2013 09:07 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>>
>> Is there a kernel/kexec-tools patch to address this problem in kernel 3.x
>> yet? Also, according to Takashi Iwa wrote, "the problem does not happen
>> always. However, once this happens, it continues to happen" :-(
>> Yes, yes, it drove me completely crazy trying to figure out how to get the
>> system out of this trapped state! Please help!
> 
> I thought Yinghai Lu worked on some patches to make 512MB reservation
> working again. Not sure where these patches are queued and when are
> they scheduled to be pushed into linus tree. 
> 
> hpa, yinghai should know more.
> 

Yes, I am working through what I'm *hoping* will be the final version
now.  If all goes well, they will probably be in -tip late tomorrow and
pushed into the 3.9 kernel.  If all *doesn't* go well, it depends on
what the hangups are.

	-hpa