linux-kernel - Re: kdump broken on 2.6.37-rc4

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Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:21:18 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
CC:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Maxim Uvarov <muvarov@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...hat.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: kdump broken on 2.6.37-rc4

On 12/16/2010 04:39 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> and use that to estimate BRK size.
> 
> so we could change the BRK calculating code to handle 896M or just limit crashkernel for 32bit to 512M...
> 

Thinking about it, we probably should *both* fix the brk and limit the
crashkernel to 512 MiB (for compatibility with older crashkernels.)

	-hpa
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