Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932460Ab3DIRMQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Apr 2013 13:12:16 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:15522 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759838Ab3DIRMP (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Apr 2013 13:12:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 13:12:03 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Yinghai Lu , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , WANG Chao , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] x86, kdump: Change crashkernel_high/low= to crashkernel=;high/low Message-ID: <20130409171203.GA12209@redhat.com> References: <1365113821-22749-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <1365113821-22749-5-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <20130409134544.GA6320@redhat.com> <20130409164720.GJ6320@redhat.com> <51644698.2010203@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51644698.2010203@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1095 Lines: 30 On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:49:28AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 04/09/2013 09:47 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 08:00:57AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> Please, no semicolons. We already have established syntax for suboptions (option=suboption,suboption,...) and suboptions with parameters (option=suboption:value,...) > > > > Ok, to understand it better, so crashkernel= will look as follows? > > > > crashkernel=suboption[,suboption[,....]][@offset] > > > > A suboption can be. > > > > - A memory value (128[KMG]) > > - A range with value (range:size) > > - Or a property influencing memory allocation behavior (e.g high or low) > > > > If yes, sounds good. > > > > Sorry, I don't quite grok @offset and range:size here. And @offset means that reserve memory at a particular offset, if available. Thanks Vivek -- 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/