On 11/13/2013 02:45 PM, jerry.hoemann@xxxxxx wrote: > > The changes in 3.9 to allow crash kernel to be allocated high helps. > But as you say, the default is still to allocate crash kernel low and > still susceptible to this problem. So, a kdump expert can work around it. > But, not everyone is a kdump expert. > > So, we can work to change the default, or encourage the distros > to always allocate high. Or, we change the call to efi_reserve_boot_services > not apply to all platforms. > > The problems for pre 3.9 based distros is worse as they don't have > ability to allocate crash kernel high. > But they won't have your new option, either, and that is still horribly manual and system-dependent. In other words, allocating the crashkernel high has ALL the advantages, plus a few more, and NONE of the disadvantages. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
