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SubjectRe: [patch 4/5] x86: use BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE on 32-bit
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 01:30:47PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:22:58PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> writes:
> >
> > > 2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us
> > > know.
> > >
> > > ------------------
> > > From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
> > >
> > > commit d3942cff620bea073fc4e3c8ed878eb1e84615ce upstream
> > >
> > > This patch uses the BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE for crashkernel reservation also for
> > > i386 and prints a error message on failure.
> > >
> > > The patch is still for 2.6.26 since it is only bug fixing. The unification
> > > of reserve_crashkernel() between i386 and x86_64 should be done for 2.6.27.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
> > > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> > >
> > > ---
> > > arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c | 10 ++++++++--
> > > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
> > > @@ -483,10 +483,16 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(v
> > > (unsigned long)(crash_size >> 20),
> > > (unsigned long)(crash_base >> 20),
> > > (unsigned long)(total_mem >> 20));
> > > +
> > > + if (reserve_bootmem(crash_base, crash_size,
> > > + BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE) < 0) {
> > > + printk(KERN_INFO "crashkernel reservation "
> > > + "failed - memory is in use\n");
> > > + return;
> > > + }
> >
> > You will also need the patch from http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/21/103 to
> > make sure reserve_bootmem() is not void (*)().
>
> Ok, let me know when that goes into Linus's tree please.

It's commit 71c2742f5e6348d76ee62085cf0a13e5eff0f00e

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

cu
Adrian

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