in while loop below, hole_end > crashk_res.end is impossible: while (hole_end <= crashk_res.end) { [snip] } Killing the check code here Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com> --- kernel/kexec.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/kexec.c 2011-11-01 13:06:20.000000000 +0800 +++ linux-2.6/kernel/kexec.c 2011-11-09 14:57:17.487022644 +0800 @@ -500,8 +500,6 @@ static struct page *kimage_alloc_crash_c if (hole_end > KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT) break; - if (hole_end > crashk_res.end) - break; /* See if I overlap any of the segments */ for (i = 0; i < image->nr_segments; i++) { unsigned long mstart, mend;