[PATCH 0/4] kexec-tools: Remove saved_max_mem

Zhang Yanfei zhangyanfei.yes at gmail.com
Sat May 25 23:38:24 EDT 2013


When loading the dump-capture kernel, in some architectures(mips/ppc/ppc64),
we should add the parameter "savemaxmem=" in the dump-capture kernel
commandline to tell the new kernel the amount of memory that the previous
kernel used.

Then in the dump-capture kernel, we parse this parameter and assign the
value to saved_max_pfn. In these architectures, the only user of
saved_max_pfn is the read interface read_oldmem for /dev/oldmem.

But, no one actually uses the /dev/oldmem interface. And we have decided
to remove the /dev/oldmem interface. A kernel side patch to remove this
interface have been sent. See https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/24/451.

So in kexec-tools, we don't need to pass this parameter anymore. This
patchset aims to remove the related variables and funtions in kexec-tools.

Zhang Yanfei (4):
  kexec-tools: mips: Remove saved_max_mem
  kexec-tools: ppc: Remove saved_max_mem
  kexec-tools: ppc64: Remove saved_max_mem
  kexec-tools: sh: Remove saved_max_mem

 kexec/arch/mips/crashdump-mips.c   |   34 ----------------------------------
 kexec/arch/ppc/crashdump-powerpc.c |   19 -------------------
 kexec/arch/ppc64/crashdump-ppc64.c |   19 -------------------
 kexec/arch/sh/crashdump-sh.c       |    6 ------
 4 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)



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