[PATCH v9 0/7] kexec: put bzImage and ramdisk above 4G for x86 64bit

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Mon Mar 4 20:34:11 EST 2013


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 05:18:58PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> On 02/22/2013 12:07 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > Now we have limit kdump reserved under 896M, because kexec has the limitation.
> > and also bzImage need to stay under 4g.
> 
> I think the kernel patches has been merged in linus tree, I got a crash
> memory address above 4G during my test, kexec tools need this patchset
> to load the 2nd kernel..
> 
> BTW, Simon, do you have plan to release the 2.0.4?

Sorry, I have been slow.

I'll get onto applying these patches and releasing 2.0.4.



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