From: Kairui Song on gitlab.com
Merge Request: https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/1171
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It has been a long-term demand for having a default crashkernel
value for each kernel build. This helps to manage kernel's
crashkernel usage by kernel version and provide users a reference
default value.

RHEL kernels support a `crashkernel=auto` cmdline param. And kernel
have a built-in default value used when `auto` is specified.
Many attempts are made to push this upstream. Recent attempt to
push this upstream raised a lot of discussions [1].

Upstream is not accepting this `crashkernel=auto` design. So after
more discussions, instead of adding a default value in kernel, just
add a config that packaged with kernel is more doable. Other packages,
like kexec-tools[2], can use this as a reference and update kernel
cmdline param.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210507010432.IN24PudKT%25akpm@linux-
foundation.org/
[2]: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
rg/thread/MKUSELX3GKKXPFNLEGJMWXSS2LADRPMQ/

Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <[email protected]>

---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst |  11 -----------
 kernel/crash_core.c                       |  28 ++--------------------------
 redhat/Makefile                           |   1 +
 redhat/generate_crashkernel_conf.sh       |  25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 redhat/kernel.spec.template               |   5 +++++
 5 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
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