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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:42:37 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com> CC: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, WANG Chao <chaowang@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically On 03/11/2013 01:38 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > I totally makes sense to figure out how to load a kernel high. I am not > convinced kexec on panic is the best use of that ability. I would argue > that it might be better to figure out how to use a small memory > foot-print and try to keep that foot-print from growing. > I could not agree more with this. The whole reason this is a problem is because we are talking about hundreds of megabytes of crashkernel. If we can fix *that* problem, we are much better off. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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