Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756208AbYGNTIk (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:08:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754074AbYGNTIb (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:08:31 -0400 Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.170.186]:13970 "EHLO rn-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753659AbYGNTIb (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:08:31 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=QUPZLqWVJ1SnFHQgvUE3cBfWfZHqJAasrLj+faDShEBkaXcd8skmPrZgPBYn1mTvlu ewM/SPOlF2YHioC28TpiqaW51lOXUdqmgF3BuEm8+feLF/Ub7jGXQJWxP/kt+q2pL5nq rxzJ/gX06lAG+HlYkOjfbQeKvs5sIWNk4GG0Q= Message-ID: <86802c440807141208u5108f7d9q23ec8cbf41ec59df@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:08:30 -0700 From: "Yinghai Lu" To: "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Find offset for crashkernel reservation automatically Cc: "Bernhard Walle" , "Vivek Goyal" , kexec@lists.infradead.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1214510048-21215-1-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de> <86802c440807140011v728cc35fy2540b537ddca9844@mail.gmail.com> <20080714112404.36783df5@halley.suse.de> <86802c440807141006o98afac8t66b0933d8acd2746@mail.gmail.com> <86802c440807141117q218fdd61w1216dc6ded72252a@mail.gmail.com> <20080714204748.07b06e30@halley.suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 677 Lines: 20 On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Bernhard Walle writes: > >> But such checks belong into kexec itself, not into the kernel. > > Exactly. > > All we should do in the kernel is bias the search for a low address. > As that is more usable. let kexec to uncompress the bzImage (need to check if header version is 2.0.8(?) above?) , if the kdump_base is above 4g. YH -- 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/