[PATCH 2/2] x86 e820: Introduce memmap=resetusablemap for kdump usage

Yinghai Lu yinghai at kernel.org
Wed Jan 23 23:07:19 EST 2013


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:32 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
>>> Again: Please explain what is bad with this solution.
>>> I cannot see a better and more robust way for kdump other than
>>> reserving the original reserved memory areas as declared by the BIOS.
>>
>> It is bad because it creates more complexity than is needed.
>>
>> The whole point is that what we want is simply to switch type 1 to type
>> X, with the sole exceptions being the areas explicitly reserved for the
>> kdump kernel.
>
> Do you prefer to  "reserveram" way in attached patch?

Hi, Thomas,

Can you please check attached reserveram version on your setup?

If it is ok, i will put it in for-x86-boot patchset and send it to
Peter for v3.9.

Thanks

Yinghai
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