Mohan Kumar M wrote: >On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 12:03:33PM +0530, Mohan Kumar M wrote: > > >>When the boot loader/kernel is not configured to reserve memory for >>crashkernel and the user tries to load the kdump kernel using kexec -p, >>tools does not give a meaningful error message. >> >>The following patch checks for the "crashkernel=" parameter in the >>/proc/cmdline and if "crashkernel=" is present then only calls the >>corresponding kexec system call to load the kdump kernel image. >>Otherwise it gives the error message and exits. >> >>Any comment, suggestion? >> >> >> > >There are some issues in this patch. > >I shall repost the patch tomorrow. > >Sorry for the inconvenience. > > > > We are already looking for crashkernel segment before loading the kdump image - crashdump-<arch>.c. Ex: for ppc64, reading linux,crashkernel-size property and for i386/x86_64, from /proc/iomem.
Why do not we display the error message and exit from here? Thanks Haren >>Regards, >>Mohan >> >> >> >_______________________________________________ >fastboot mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot > > _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
