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

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Message-ID: <86802c440807141208u5108f7d9q23ec8cbf41ec59df@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:08:30 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	"Bernhard Walle" <bwalle@...e.de>,
	"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

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
> 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.

let kexec to uncompress the bzImage (need to check if header version
is 2.0.8(?) above?) , if the kdump_base is above 4g.

YH
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