On Thu, Apr 07, Am?rico Wang wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de> wrote: > > Another issue, slightly related, is memory hotplug. > > How is this currently handled for kdump? ?Is there code which > > automatically reconfigures the kdump kernel with the new memory ranges? > > > > No, the crashkernel memory is reserved during boot, and it is static after > that (except you can shrink this memory via /sys). I meant the overall amount of memory changed by memory hotplug events, not the small memory range for the crash kernel itself. > Kdump isn't aware of memory hotplug. Ok. Perhaps there are hotplug events where a helper script could run something like 'rckdump restart'. Olaf
