Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754648Ab3CRTF0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:05:26 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f172.google.com ([209.85.223.172]:36063 "EHLO mail-ie0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752849Ab3CRTFZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:05:25 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130318153348.GA25806@redhat.com> References: <20130311182655.GB12107@redhat.com> <513E2695.3080707@zytor.com> <513E28B8.3000502@zytor.com> <20130311191031.GD12107@redhat.com> <20130311193824.GA14738@redhat.com> <20130318144603.GA20743@redhat.com> <20130318153348.GA25806@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:05:24 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: NYiK1iPjzhScSjU-Vgq4nxdppyY Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically From: Yinghai Lu To: Vivek Goyal Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , "H. Peter Anvin" , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , WANG Chao , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 900 Lines: 24 On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote: > Thinking more about it, if ongoing DMA is an issue, then setting up > software iotlb in those areas is also prone to being overwritten by > those DMAs. Hence, reserving memory low where no DMA is setup by first > kernel, seems somewhat safer. So stick with crashkernel_low ? aka if system does not support iommu with kdump, they need to append crashkernel_low in first kernel. I think that could be way to force vendor to double check to find out why their system does not support iommu with kdump. BTW, our systems do support iommu with kdump without problem. Thanks Yinghai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/