linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/3] [x86] Fix crashkernel reservation on NUMA machines

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:44:17 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de>
Cc:	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	vgoyal@...hat.com, anderson@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] [x86] Fix crashkernel reservation on NUMA machines


* Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de> wrote:

> This patch series fixes the crashkernel reservation on NUMA machine. 
> The regression was discovered by Dave Anderson <anderson@...hat.com>.
> 
> The background is that on NUMA machines, reserve_bootmem_generic() is 
> required instead of reserve_bootmem(). To achieve that, it's necessary 
> to make a few API changes.
> 
> The patches are against latest linux-2.6 git. They should still go 
> into 2.6.26 since it's only bug fixing. For 2.6.27, we should unify 
> crashkernel reservation for i386 and x86-64.
> 
> Tested on both i386 and x86-64. Compilation was tested with both kexec 
> disabled and enabled. The change is x86 only, so no need to test on 
> other architectures.

applied to tip/x86/numa - thanks Bernhard.

	Ingo
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