On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 03:48:52PM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote: > From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Currently only the address of the pre-allocated ELF header is passed with > the elfcorehdr= kernel parameter. In order to reserve memory for the header > in the 2nd kernel also the size is required. Current kdump architecture > backends use different methods to do that, e.g. x86 uses the memmap= kernel > parameter. On s390 there is no easy way to transfer this information. > Therefore the elfcorehdr kernel parameter is extended to also pass the size. > This now can also be used as standard mechanism by all future kdump > architecture backends. Michael, This version looks much better. A quick question. Who parses this elfcorehdr= parameter in s390 and how do we make sure these headers are not overwritten. Thanks Vivek -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html