Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:15:55 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: kdump broken on 2.6.37-rc4 |
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On 12/16/2010 02:01 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > Yinghai, > > On my system above change works fine and I can boot into second kernel. So > it will boil down to knowing what are the exact constraints on heap for > decompression and for 32bit can we allow heap upto 896MB or not. >
By the way, 896 MiB is almost certainly too aggressive; the vmalloc area is adjustable and there are other bits that can chew off a few MiB of address space. I would suggest we either make it 512 or 768 MiB *and* fix the brk limit.
Opinions?
-hpa
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