Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:33:57 -0700 | Subject | Re: [Patch 0/7] Implement crashkernel=auto |
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Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> writes:
> 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 7/7 which contains an update for the documentation. > > Note: This patchset was only tested on x86_64 with differernt memory sizes.
This seems like a silly hard code. Especially for a feature distros don't care enough about to implement a working initrd for.
Has anyone bothered to justify those large amounts of memory? Where does the 128M go?
Please pardon me for being a cynic but I don't see the command line option being the bottleneck for real users to make this work.
Eric
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