* ebiederm at xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) [2008-06-27 11:00]: > Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de> writes: > > > Ah, that's true. Only on x86, right? (That would be an alternative for > > ia64, too ...) > > > > But in general policy should go in userspace (if possible), so I agree > > with you that kexec-tools can handle that. > > At a quick skim the patch looks good. I thought I had initially implemented > the code to work this way but apparently in all of the churn that aspect of it > got lost. > > Let's start with trying to allocate the memory as low as possible for > a crash kernel (I think you are already doing that). Yes, in 95 % of the cases the crashkernel still gets reserved at 16M. Bernhard -- Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development
