linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel

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Message-ID: <CAE9FiQUGxGveg__VHE0-f0zfuY1ivuDMpQmMb9p0ic5=Hyf91A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:59:21 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	WANG Chao <chaowang@...hat.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:59 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> On 04/11/2013 11:54 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
>> +             /*
>> +              * two parts from lib/swiotlb.c:
>> +              *      swiotlb size: user specified with swiotlb= or default.
>> +              *      swiotlb overflow buffer: now is hardcoded to 32k,
>> +              *              round to 8M to cover more others.
>> +              */
>
> This comment is incomprehensible.  "Cover more others"?

i mean other buffers that may need to stay low, but we do not know
them eactly yet.

Thanks

Yinghai
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