Hello Vivek, Andrew, On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 14:29 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:58:28AM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote: > > > Why not make this unconditional, for all architectures which support > > > hugepages? ie: > > > > > > #ifdef HPAGE_SIZE > > > #define KEXEC_CRASH_MEM_ALIGN HPAGE_SIZE > > > #else > > > #define KEXEC_CRASH_MEM_ALIGN PAGE_SIZE > > > #endif > > > > > in include/linux/kexec.h? > > > > > > IOW, what are the compromises here? > > > > If we would do it that way, crashkernel memory on architectures that > > support large pages but do not support unmapping of crashkernel memory > > would always be aligned to HPAGE_SIZE. But only PAGE_SIZE alignment > > would be necessary in that case. > > > > If that is acceptable I have no problem to define that unconditional for > > all architectures. Vivek what do you think? > > As PAGE_SIZE alignment is sufficient for rest of the architecture, I > am fine with keeping it in arch dependent files. Ok fine. So I will resend the two patches including Andrew's resource_size() fix and keep KEXEC_CRASH_MEM_ALIGN definition architecture dependent. Michael -- 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