linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Find offset for crashkernel reservation automatically

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:55:34 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de>
Cc:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	"Vivek Goyal" <vgoyal@...hat.com>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Find offset for crashkernel reservation automatically

Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de> writes:

> But such checks belong into kexec itself, not into the kernel.

Exactly.

All we should do in the kernel is bias the search for a low address.
As that is more usable.

Eric
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