linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel

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Date:	Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:26:12 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	WANG Chao <chaowang@...hat.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically

Then make the comment so it is actually possible to understand that.

Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:

>On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:59 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>> On 04/11/2013 11:54 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>>> +             /*
>>> +              * two parts from lib/swiotlb.c:
>>> +              *      swiotlb size: user specified with swiotlb= or
>default.
>>> +              *      swiotlb overflow buffer: now is hardcoded to
>32k,
>>> +              *              round to 8M to cover more others.
>>> +              */
>>
>> This comment is incomprehensible.  "Cover more others"?
>
>i mean other buffers that may need to stay low, but we do not know
>them eactly yet.
>
>Thanks
>
>Yinghai

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