[PATCH v2 0/4] kexec-tools, x86: E820 memmap pass for kdump

[Vivek Goyal]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 04:34:26PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote:

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> > > How could this replace saved_max_pfn? The highest memory in kdump can't
> > > necessarily be the real ram size. In kdump, RAM range is just part of the
> > > real ram, not mentioning we don't pass RESERVED range to kdump E820.
> I expected you pass RAM that must not be used as RESERVED. Then, still 
> depending on which mem type is the last one, it might have worked.

No we don't. There is a proposal though to pass first kernel's reserved
ranges to second kernel as SGI folks need that somehow.

Thanks
Vivek