Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Vivek Goyal [2008-06-09 09:22]: >> Kdump first kernel always tries to reserve just physical RAM and nothing >> else. So I am not sure what does above code do. Try to reserve a memory >> which is not RAM but is in the region less than highest mapped entity and >> in that case return silently without any warning. In what case do we >> exercise this path? > > I don't know. That code has been introduced in > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=5e58a02a8f6a7a1c9ae41f39286bcd3aea0d6f24 > > Ccing Andi. > > IMO we should not print any warning in that function, leaving the error > handling to the caller. Don't remember the details. Perhaps Amul does (cc'ed) -Andi
