Re: [PATCH 1/2] kdump/x86: crashkernel=X try to reserve below 896M first then below 4G and MAXMEM

On 04/27/18 at 05:14pm, Dave Young wrote: > Hi, > > This is a resend of below patches: > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2017-October/019569.html > > I dropped the original patch 1 since Baoquan is not happy with it. > For patch 2 (the 1st patch in this series), there is some

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kdump/x86: crashkernel=X try to reserve below 896M first then below 4G and MAXMEM

On 04/27/18 at 05:14pm, Dave Young wrote: > Hi, > > This is a resend of below patches: > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2017-October/019569.html > > I dropped the original patch 1 since Baoquan is not happy with it. > For patch 2 (the 1st patch in this series), there is some

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kdump/x86: crashkernel=X try to reserve below 896M first then below 4G and MAXMEM

On 04/27/18 at 05:14pm, Dave Young wrote: > Hi, > > This is a resend of below patches: > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2017-October/019569.html > > I dropped the original patch 1 since Baoquan is not happy with it. > For patch 2 (the 1st patch in this series), there is some

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kdump/x86: crashkernel=X try to reserve below 896M first then below 4G and MAXMEM

On 04/27/18 at 05:14pm, Dave Young wrote: > Hi, > > This is a resend of below patches: > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2017-October/019569.html > > I dropped the original patch 1 since Baoquan is not happy with it. > For patch 2 (the 1st patch in this series), there is some

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kdump/x86: crashkernel=X try to reserve below 896M first then below 4G and MAXMEM

Hi, This is a resend of below patches: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2017-October/019569.html I dropped the original patch 1 since Baoquan is not happy with it. For patch 2 (the 1st patch in this series), there is some improvement comment from Baoquan to create some generic

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kdump/x86: crashkernel=X try to reserve below 896M first then below 4G and MAXMEM

Hi, This is a resend of below patches: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2017-October/019569.html I dropped the original patch 1 since Baoquan is not happy with it. For patch 2 (the 1st patch in this series), there is some improvement comment from Baoquan to create some generic

[PATCH 1/2] kdump/x86: crashkernel=X try to reserve below 896M first then below 4G and MAXMEM

Now crashkernel=X will fail if there's not enough memory at low region (below 896M) when trying to reserve large memory size. One can use crashkernel=xM,high to reserve it at high region (>4G) but it is more convinient to improve crashkernel=X to: - First try to reserve X below 896M (for being

[PATCH 1/2] kdump/x86: crashkernel=X try to reserve below 896M first then below 4G and MAXMEM

Now crashkernel=X will fail if there's not enough memory at low region (below 896M) when trying to reserve large memory size. One can use crashkernel=xM,high to reserve it at high region (>4G) but it is more convinient to improve crashkernel=X to: - First try to reserve X below 896M (for being