linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/2] kdump: Add KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY

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Message-ID: <20110819142403.GF18656@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:24:03 -0400
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:	Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, hbabu@...ibm.com,
	oomichi@....nes.nec.co.jp, horms@...ge.net.au,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,
	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] kdump: Add KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:18:58PM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> On s390 there is a different KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT for the normal and
> the kdump kexec case. Therefore this patch introduces a new macro
> KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT. This is set to
> KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT for all architectures that do not define
> KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Looks good to me. 

Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>

Vivek

> ---
>  include/linux/kexec.h |    4 ++++
>  kernel/kexec.c        |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/include/linux/kexec.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
> @@ -33,6 +33,10 @@
>  #error KEXEC_ARCH not defined
>  #endif
>  
> +#ifndef KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT
> +#define KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT
> +#endif
> +
>  #define KEXEC_NOTE_HEAD_BYTES ALIGN(sizeof(struct elf_note), 4)
>  #define KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME "CORE"
>  #define KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME_BYTES ALIGN(sizeof(KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME), 4)
> --- a/kernel/kexec.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec.c
> @@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ static struct page *kimage_alloc_crash_c
>  	while (hole_end <= crashk_res.end) {
>  		unsigned long i;
>  
> -		if (hole_end > KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT)
> +		if (hole_end > KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT)
>  			break;
>  		if (hole_end > crashk_res.end)
>  			break;
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