Re: [discuss] [patch 3/5] Use extended crashkernel command line on x86_64

2007-09-11 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-11 07:14]: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 08:52:58PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > > * Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-09 19:27]: > > > > > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC > > > ... > > > > > > CONFIG_KEXEC or CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP? > > > > Good question. The

Re: [discuss] [patch 3/5] Use extended crashkernel command line on x86_64

2007-09-10 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 08:52:58PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-09 19:27]: > > > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC > > ... > > > > CONFIG_KEXEC or CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP? > > Good question. The crashkernel parameter was CONFIG_KEXEC before, and > I also wondered wh

Re: [discuss] [patch 3/5] Use extended crashkernel command line on x86_64

2007-09-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-09 19:27]: >> > >> > +#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC >> ... >> >> CONFIG_KEXEC or CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP? > > Good question. The crashkernel parameter was CONFIG_KEXEC before, and > I also wondered why, but I didn't change thi

Re: [discuss] [patch 3/5] Use extended crashkernel command line on x86_64

2007-09-09 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-09 19:27]: > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC > ... > > CONFIG_KEXEC or CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP? Good question. The crashkernel parameter was CONFIG_KEXEC before, and I also wondered why, but I didn't change this because maybe there's some reason I don't know. Vivek

Re: [discuss] [patch 3/5] Use extended crashkernel command line on x86_64

2007-09-09 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 9/9/07, Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch removes the crashkernel parsing from > arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c and calls the generic function, introduced > in > the last patch, in setup_bootmem_allocator(). > > This is necessary because the amount of System RAM must be