Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754796Ab0LMTrn (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:47:43 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:54170 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754687Ab0LMTrm (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:47:42 -0500 Message-ID: <4D06783C.6040009@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:47:08 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Fedora/3.1.6-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yinghai Lu CC: Stanislaw Gruszka , Vivek Goyal , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Maxim Uvarov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Neil Horman Subject: Re: kdump broken on 2.6.37-rc4 References: <20101203111623.GA2741@redhat.com> <20101203171147.GA2299@redhat.com> <20101203175401.GE28603@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <20101207105053.GA2803@redhat.com> <4CFE89FE.1090901@kernel.org> <20101208141942.GA2335@redhat.com> <4D00823A.9050808@kernel.org> <20101209124117.GA6032@redhat.com> <4D01377B.5070809@kernel.org> <20101213100848.GA2237@redhat.com> <4D0663F0.2060103@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <4D0663F0.2060103@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 915 Lines: 24 On 12/13/2010 10:20 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > it seems 32bit kdump need crashkernel much low than we expect... > > Maybe we have to find_in_range_low() to make 32bit kdump happy. > Not this garbage again... sigh. Once again, I will want to know what the actual constraint is... not just "oh, this seems to work on this one system." I realize that the kdump interfaces are probably beyond saving -- we have had this discussion enough times -- but I'm not happy about it and I will really want to know what the heck the real issue is. Furthermore, such a function should NOT be private to x86 core; if it's needed at all it should live in the memblock core. -hpa -- 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/