Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] crash: move crashkernel parsing and vmcore related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE

2017-01-05 Thread Hari Bathini
Hi Dave, On Thursday 05 January 2017 11:47 AM, Dave Young wrote: Hi, Hari On 01/02/17 at 07:43pm, Hari Bathini wrote: Traditionally, kdump is used to save vmcore in case of a crash. Some architectures like powerpc can save vmcore using architecture specific support instead of kexec/kdump mech

Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] crash: move crashkernel parsing and vmcore related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE

2017-01-04 Thread Dave Young
Hi, Hari On 01/02/17 at 07:43pm, Hari Bathini wrote: > Traditionally, kdump is used to save vmcore in case of a crash. Some > architectures like powerpc can save vmcore using architecture specific > support instead of kexec/kdump mechanism. Such architecture specific > support also needs to reserv

[PATCH v3 1/5] crash: move crashkernel parsing and vmcore related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE

2017-01-02 Thread Hari Bathini
Traditionally, kdump is used to save vmcore in case of a crash. Some architectures like powerpc can save vmcore using architecture specific support instead of kexec/kdump mechanism. Such architecture specific support also needs to reserve memory, to be used by dump capture kernel. crashkernel param