Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:15:09 -0400 | From | Amerigo Wang <> | Subject | [Patch 0/8] V3 Implement crashkernel=auto |
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V2 -> V3: - Use more clever way to calculate reserved memory size, especially for IA64. - Add that patch that implements shrinking reserved memory
V1 -> V2: - Use include/asm-generic/kexec.h, suggested by Neil. - Rename a local variable, suggested by Fenghua. - Fix some style problems found by checkpatch.pl. - Unify the Kconfig docs.
This series of patch implements automatically reserved memory for crashkernel, by introducing a new boot option "crashkernel=auto". This idea is from Neil.
In case of breaking user-space applications, it modifies this boot option after it decides how much memory should be reserved.
On different arch, the threshold and reserved memory size is different. Please refer patch 7/8 which contains an update for the documentation.
Patch 8/8 implements shrinking reserved memory at run-time.
Note: This patchset was only tested on x86_64 with differernt memory sizes.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle@gmx.de>
--- Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 28 ++++++++++ arch/ia64/Kconfig | 14 +++++ arch/ia64/include/asm/kexec.h | 23 ++++++++ arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 11 ++++ arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h | 8 +++ arch/x86/Kconfig | 13 ++++ arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h | 1 include/asm-generic/kexec.h | 42 +++++++++++++++ include/linux/kexec.h | 3 + kernel/kexec.c | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/ksysfs.c | 21 +++++++ 11 files changed, 268 insertions(+)
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