kdump failed because of hotplug memory adding in kdump kernel

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thursday, January 09, 2014 11:34:30 AM Toshi Kani wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 13:23 -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 10:24:25AM -0700, Toshi Kani wrote:
> > 
> > [..]
> > > > I think creating a new command line option is simpler as compared to
> > > > creating a new flag in bootparam which in turn disables memory hotplug.
> > > > More users can use that option. For example, if for some reason hotplug
> > > > code is crashing, one can just disable it on command line as work around
> > > > and move on.
> > > 
> > > I do not have a strong opinion about having such option.  However, I
> > > think it is more user friendly to keep the exactmap option works alone
> > > on any platforms.
> > 
> > I think we should create internally a variable which will disable memory
> > hotplug. And set that variable based on memmap=exactmap, mem=X and also
> > provide a way to disable memory hotplug directly using command line
> > option.
> > 
> > Current kexec-tools can use memmap=exactmap and be happy. I am writing
> > a new kexec syscall and will not be using memmap=exactmap and would need
> > to use that command line option to disable memory hotplug behavior.
> 
> Sounds good to me.

Agreed.

Thanks!

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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.