Hi,

I'm running 2.6.34 with kexec 2.0.1 on a Freescale p5020-based system with 8GB 
of memory.  (It's an embedded system and I can't do much about the fact that 
it's using older software.)

I booted the original kernel with "crashkernel=224M@32M" in the boot args.  I 
then loaded the crash kernel with:

./kexec -p vmlinux.kontron.strip --append="root=/dev/mtdblock0 rw 
rootfstype=jffs2 panic=5 1 maxcpus=1 noirqdistrib reset_devices"

Then I triggered a crash:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger


When the crash kernel came up, it had "elfcorehdr=48392K savemaxmem=8192M" in 
the kernel boot args, and "free" showed the system as having 7908652 KB of 
total memory instead of the expected 224MB.

Do I need to manually specify some options to kexec in order to preserve the 
memory of the original system?  I seem to recall that kexec did this 
automatically on x86 systems.

Thanks,
Chris

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