[PATCH] x86, kdump: crashkernel=X try to reserve below 896M first, then try below 4G, then MAXMEM

[Yinghai Lu]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:11:51PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> Hence both crashkernel=xM and crashkernel=XM,high have their own usage.
> We have been using crashkernel=xM and we know it works. So extending it
> to be able to allocate memory from higher regions, if sufficient memory
> is not available in lower regions makes sense. Memory reservation below
> 4G is more efficient due to not requiring swiotlb. And crashkernel=xM
> has been working for us and users are familiar with it.
>
> So I don't see a point that why would you try to block any move to
> extend crashkernel=xM semantics.

Make the thing simple.
Keep them separately, leave crashkernel=xM to old kexec-tools mostly
and keep crashkernel=xM,high to newer kexec-tools as needed.

Thanks

Yinghai