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

Yinghai Lu yinghai at kernel.org
Thu Oct 24 15:24:57 EDT 2013


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:15:25PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> Also keeping things simple by not trying to *impose* a new crashkernel=
> syntax on existing crashkernel=xM users.

Existing user that have crashkernel=xM working with their old kernel
and old kexec-tools, they still could keep their old command line and
old kexec-tools
with new updated kernel.
We should not change semantics to surprise them.

Thanks

Yinghai



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