On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 04:34:26PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: [..] > > > How could this replace saved_max_pfn? The highest memory in kdump can't > > > necessarily be the real ram size. In kdump, RAM range is just part of the > > > real ram, not mentioning we don't pass RESERVED range to kdump E820. > I expected you pass RAM that must not be used as RESERVED. Then, still > depending on which mem type is the last one, it might have worked. No we don't. There is a proposal though to pass first kernel's reserved ranges to second kernel as SGI folks need that somehow. Thanks Vivek