Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:11:38 -0700 | From | "Yinghai Lu" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] Limit E820 map when a user-defined memory map is specified |
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On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> wrote: > * "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> [2008-06-20 13:34]: >> >> any problem that you encountered without this patch? > > Sorry, forgot to answer that question. > > Yes, if you use mem=3G and take a dump, kexec builds the ELF core > headers for the full memory size, which means that the dump is as large > as the physical memory of the machine is, which doesn't make sense.
can we use e820_update_range instead? so e820_setup_gap still can get correct value?
YH
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