[PATCH 4/4] kexec-tools: Add cgroup_disable=memory to crash kernel parameters

[Vivek Goyal]

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:20:21PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:57:36AM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > cgroup memory subsystem pre-allocates quite some memory at boot up.
> > Example dmesg:
> > allocated 469762048 bytes of page_cgroup
> > please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups
> > 
> > Due to maxcpu=1 it is by far not that much than in a productive kernel.
> > It still seem to be around 4M statically as no Numa overhead exists with
> > only one active CPU. It is still worth to disable cgroup memory
> > pre-allocating in crash kernel environment.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn at suse.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <Thomas Renninger" trenn at suse.de>
> 
> I'm not really sure this kind of logic should be hard-coded into
> kexec-tools. --append should allow callers of kexec to add this
> option if it is appropriate.

Agreed. cgroup_disable=memory is better not hard coded here. In F19
default config we have cgroup_disable=memory specified which is passed
to kexec-tools using --append option.

Thanks
Vivek