[PATCH v4 2/4] x86: Store memory ranges globally used for crash kernel to boot into

Thomas Renninger trenn at suse.de
Fri Mar 28 11:44:33 EDT 2014


On Friday, March 28, 2014 01:23:49 PM WANG Chao wrote:
> On 03/27/14 at 06:32pm, Vivek Goyal wrote:
...

> I was just trying to keep the change as minimal as possible, so that the
> reviewers can be more clear of what the patch does instead of something
> looks messed up.
Sounds very sane. I tried it the other way around:
clean up and then do the functional change
and I ended up in a mess changing back and forth and I had to move on
to other stuff in the end.

> But if you have no problem review it, I can do some
> clean up within this patch. However I think it's better to be addressed
> the cleanup in the future, or at least as a separated patch in this
> series.
Seeing some cleanups, especially getting rid of the duplicate code to get 
memory ranges in kdump and kexec case (which I expect still exists?) on top 
later would be great.

     Thomas




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