Messages in this thread | | | Date | 15 Apr 2005 19:30:40 +0200 | Date | Fri, 15 Apr 2005 19:30:40 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][x86_64] Introducing the memmap= kernel command line option |
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:43:55AM +0530, Hariprasad Nellitheertha wrote: > Hi Andi, > > In order to port kdump to x86_64, we need to have the > memmap= kernel command line option available. This is so > that the dump-capture kernel can be booted with a custom > memory map. > > The attached patch adds the memmap= functionality to the > x86_64 kernel. It is against 2.6.12-rc2-mm3. I have done > some amount of testing and it is working fine. > > Could you kindly review this patch and let me know your > thoughts on it.
You should add a __setup somewhere, otherwise the kernel will complain about unknown arguments or generate a memmap variable in inits environment.
Comma parsing would be nice.
Otherwise it looks ok.
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