From: Cliff Wickman <[email protected]>

On kexec set-up of a crash kernel on a very large memory machine we
sometimes see the worrisome warning:
  Too many memory ranges, truncating...
meaning that the total count of e820 ram, reserved and ACPI spaces is over 128.

Per the comment in do_bzImage_load():
                /* If using bzImage for capture kernel, then we will not be
                 * executing real mode code. setup segment can be loaded
                 * anywhere as we will be just reading command line.
                 */
So if I understand, the e820 table built here and added to the 'real_mode'
area is not going to be used.
So the warning message can be omitted.

Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <[email protected]>
---
 kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: kexec-tools-2.0.4-rc1/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c
===================================================================
--- kexec-tools-2.0.4-rc1.orig/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c
+++ kexec-tools-2.0.4-rc1/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 #include "../../kexec.h"
 #include "kexec-x86.h"
 #include "x86-linux-setup.h"
+#include "../../kexec/kexec-syscall.h"
 
 void init_linux_parameters(struct x86_linux_param_header *real_mode)
 {
@@ -491,7 +492,13 @@ void setup_linux_system_parameters(struc
                die("Cannot get memory information\n");
        }
        if (ranges > E820MAX) {
-               fprintf(stderr, "Too many memory ranges, truncating...\n");
+               if (!(kexec_flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH))
+                       /*
+                        * this e820 not used for capture kernel, see
+                        * do_bzImage_load()
+                        */
+                       fprintf(stderr,
+                               "Too many memory ranges, truncating...\n");
                ranges = E820MAX;
        }
        real_mode->e820_map_nr = ranges;

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