linux-kernel - [Patch 0/8] V6 Implement crashkernel=auto

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Date:	Fri, 4 Sep 2009 06:08:20 -0400
From:	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	tony.luck@...el.com, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...hat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>,
	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>,
	"M. Mohan Kumar" <mohan@...ibm.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	bernhard.walle@....de, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>
Subject: [Patch 0/8] V6 Implement crashkernel=auto

This is the LAST try, since some people still don't like them.

Please take whatever you want, patch 8/8 can be applied
seprately, only taking it is fine.

V5 -> V6:
 - move arch_default*() functions into C files.

V4 -> V5:
 - Rename the global functions, as suggested by Andrew.
 - Save some macros, as suggested by Andrew.
 - Change the high threshold, from 32G to 4G.
 - Change the low threshold on ppc, suggested by ppc developers.
 - Make the mm part as a seperate function, suggest by Eric.
 - Make the IA64 code more readable.
 - Reorder the patchset again, since review from mm people is done.

V3 -> V4:
 - Reorder the patches.
 - Really free the reserved memory, instead of remapping it.
   (Thanks to KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki!)
 - Release the reserved memory resource when the size is 0.
 - Use strict_strtoul() instead of simple_strtoul().

V2 -> V3:
 - Use more clever way to calculate reserved memory size, especially for IA64.
 - Add that patch that implements shrinking reserved memory

V1 -> V2:
 - Use include/asm-generic/kexec.h, suggested by Neil.
 - Rename a local variable, suggested by Fenghua.
 - Fix some style problems found by checkpatch.pl.
 - Unify the Kconfig docs.

This series of patch implements automatically reserved memory for crashkernel,
by introducing a new boot option "crashkernel=auto". This idea is from Neil.

In case of breaking user-space applications, it modifies this boot option after
it decides how much memory should be reserved.

On different arch, the threshold and reserved memory size is different. Please
refer patch 7/8 which contains an update for the documentation.

Patch 8/8 implements shrinking reserved memory at run-time, which is useful
when more than enough memory is reserved automatically.

This patchset _is_ already tested on x86_64, IA64 and ppc64.

Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@...hat.com>
Cc: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@...ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Cc: Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle@....de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@...hat.com>

---
 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt       |   29 ++++++++
 arch/ia64/Kconfig                   |   14 ++++
 arch/ia64/include/asm/kexec.h       |    7 ++
 arch/ia64/kernel/machine_kexec.c    |   38 +++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig                |   11 +++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h    |   22 ++++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c |   24 ++++++
 arch/x86/Kconfig                    |   13 +++
 arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h        |    1 
 include/asm-generic/kexec.h         |   16 ++++
 include/linux/kexec.h               |    2 
 kernel/kexec.c                      |  124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/ksysfs.c                     |   21 ++++++
 13 files changed, 322 insertions(+)

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