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SubjectRe: kdump broken on 2.6.37-rc4
On 12/16/2010 02:01 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
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> 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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