In parse_crashkernel_mem, it silently return in case we get zero bytes in the parsing function. It is useful for debugging for adding a warning message especially sometimes kernel can not boot up correctly. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com> --- kernel/crash_core.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-x86.orig/kernel/crash_core.c +++ linux-x86/kernel/crash_core.c @@ -108,7 +108,8 @@ static int __init parse_crashkernel_mem( return -EINVAL; } } - } + } else + pr_warn("crashkernel size resulted in zero bytes\n"); return 0; }