On 04/22/14 at 10:56am, WANG Chao wrote: > Hi, All > > This patchset enables passing memory map via E820 map on x86 platform instead > of memmap=exactmap. It's a better design and will solve the following problem > so far: > > - kernel cmdline is limited resource and large machines tend to have many > memory ranges that may excceed kernel cmdline limit size. > - kASLR doesn't work with memmap=exactmap, because kASLR happens early than > user defined memmap=exactmap takes effect. > > Unfortunately, saved_max_pfn still got its user out there (calgry pci, it looks > like the only one). So for backward compatibility, I'm introducing a new option > --pass-memmap-cmdline to force kexec-tools to pass memmap=exactmap, the old way. > > This patchset contains massive updates from the previous one. I take some > suggestions from reviewers. I try to split the changes into smaller pieces and > keep the whole change as minimal as I can so it wouldn't be too harsh to review > the patch. > > Any comment is appreciate! > > v7->v6: > dyoung/Simon: > - more description for CRASH_MAX_MEMMAP_NR to be 1024 Hi, Simon I've changed 5/9 regarding Dave's comment and yours. Could you please pick up this patchset if there's no more problem? Thanks WANG Chao
