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From: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling•org>
To: mohan@in•ibm.com
Cc: fastboot@osdl•org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Reserve crashkernel memory region
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:06:26 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060428070704.4AD0A679F5@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060424061015.GA31320@in.ibm.com>

> Now kexec'ed kernel in a PPC64 machine does not reserve memory for
> crashkernel region. So kexec'ed kernel can not load kdump kernel
> reliably.

Owww 3 boots... scary :-)

> Attached kexec-tools patch reserves memory for kdump kernel by adding
> an entry in the reserve memory table. So while kexec'ed kernel is
> booting, it reserves memory for crashkernel region.

This logic is duplicated in prom_init.c.  

It'd be cool if the kernel parsed the command line early on (after
prom_init.c) and did the memory reserves there.  Then we wouldn't need
this logic in both the kexec tools and prom_init.c.

Mikey

      reply	other threads:[~2006-04-28  7:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-24  6:10 [PATCH] Reserve crashkernel memory region Mohan Kumar M
2006-04-28  7:06 ` Michael Neuling [this message]

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