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Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:36:33 -0800 From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: crash kernel reserve with reserve_early -v2 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> writes: > >> use find_e820_area/reserve_early instead. >> >> -v2: address Eric's request, to restore original semantics. >> will fail, if the provided address can not be used. > > This patch seems reasonable. > > YH what is the benefit of using reserve_early, and moving > reserve_crashkernel earlier? old way mixing find_e820_area and reserve_bootmem like bandit... also there are some effects to remove bootmem, so we try to reduce bootmem reference. YH -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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