On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote: > Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel at gmail.com> writes: > >> [PATCH] x86: crash kernel reserve with reserve_early >> >> use find_e820_area/reserve_early instead. >> will get next good one automatically with alignment > > Semantically this is broken, as you are now ignoring a passed in > base address if one is supplied. ?What problem are you trying to fix? avoid to use bootmem. also simpify the code. YH