Re: [PATCH] Reserve memory for kdump kernel within RMO region

2009-11-25 Thread Bernhard Walle
M. Mohan Kumar schrieb: > Reserve memory for kdump kernel within RMO region > > When the kernel size exceeds 32MB(observed with some distros), memory > for kdump kernel can not be reserved as kdump kernel base is assumed to > be 32MB always. When the kernel has CONFIG_RELOCATABLE option enabled, >

Re: [PATCH] Reserve memory for kdump kernel within RMO region

2009-11-26 Thread Bernhard Walle
M. Mohan Kumar schrieb: > On 11/26/2009 12:22 AM, Bernhard Walle wrote: >> M. Mohan Kumar schrieb: >>> Reserve memory for kdump kernel within RMO region >>> >>> When the kernel size exceeds 32MB(observed with some distros), memory >>> for kdump kerne

Re: [PATCH] Reserve memory for kdump kernel within RMO region

2009-11-27 Thread Bernhard Walle
M. Mohan Kumar schrieb: > Hi, > > As of now the kdump kernel base is fixed to be 32MB. The intention of > this patch is to modify that behaviour (for relocatable kernels) > > * Regular kernel size may exceed 32MB, in this case we can't have kdump > kernelbase as 32MB. > > * crashkernel=auto al

Re: 2.6.24-mm1: ppc32: too few arguments to function 'reserve_bootmem'

2008-02-05 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-04 23:40]: > We did this wrong. We should have introduced a new reserve_bootmem_foo() > and migrated over to that in stages. Once all callers are migrated, remove > the old interface. Well, my original proposal was to add a new function but then someo

[patch 5/7] Use extended crashkernel command line on ppc64

2007-09-13 Thread Bernhard Walle
This patch adapts the ppc64 code to use the generic parse_crashkernel() function introduced in the generic patch of that series. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 52 ++-- 1 file changed, 26 inse

[patch 5/7] Use extended crashkernel command line on ppc64

2007-09-20 Thread Bernhard Walle
This patch adapts the ppc64 code to use the generic parse_crashkernel() function introduced in the generic patch of that series. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 52 ++-- 1 file changed, 26 inse

[patch 5/7] Use extended crashkernel command line on ppc64

2007-09-25 Thread Bernhard Walle
This patch adapts the ppc64 code to use the generic parse_crashkernel() function introduced in the generic patch of that series. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 52 ++-- 1 file changed, 26 inse

Re: [patch 5/7] Use extended crashkernel command line on ppc64

2007-09-26 Thread Bernhard Walle
Hi, * Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-25 21:45]: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:23:02 +0200 Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This patch adapts the ppc64 code to use the generic parse_crashkernel() > > function introduced in the generic patch

[PATCH] Remove experimental status of kdump on PPC64

2008-06-26 Thread Bernhard Walle
This patch removes the experimental status of kdump on IA64. kdump is on IA64 now since more than one year and it has proven to be stable. For i386/x86_64, a similar patch has been accepted by Ingo Molnar and Vivek Goyal. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/p

[PATCH] Remove experimental status of kdump on PPC64

2008-06-26 Thread Bernhard Walle
This patch removes the experimental status of kdump on PPC64. kdump is on PPC64 now since more than one year and it has proven to be stable. For i386/x86_64, a similar patch has been accepted by Ingo Molnar and Vivek Goyal. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/p

Re: [PATCH] Remove experimental status of kdump on PPC64

2008-06-26 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Josh Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-26 11:28]: > > On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 14:57 +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > > This patch removes the experimental status of kdump on IA64. kdump is on > > IA64 > > now since more than one year and it has proven to be stabl