Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:34:53 +0800 | From | Amerigo Wang <> | Subject | Re: [Patch 0/8] V4 Implement crashkernel=auto |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > (cc linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org) > > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:54:12 -0400 > Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> wrote: > > >> 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 8/8 which contains an update for the documentation. >> >> Patch 1/8 implements shrinking reserved memory at run-time, which is useful >> when more than enough memory is reserved automatically. >> >> Note: This patchset was only tested on x86_64 with differernt memory sizes. >> > > > I'd prefer that this change had been runtime tested on ia64 and powerpc > and has had some quality review from relevant developers of those > architectures. > > Looking at the cc's, I'm not sure that the powerpc guys even know about > this work? > > Ok, let me try to find some ppc and ia64 machines in the company.. ;)
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