linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Early use of boot service memory

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Date:	Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:45:42 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@...com>
CC:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"list@...ederm.org:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
	"list@...ederm.org:MEMORY MANAGEMENT" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Early use of boot service memory

On 11/14/2013 10:44 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:04 PM,  <jerry.hoemann@...com> wrote:
>> Making this issue a quirk will be a lot more practical.  Its a small, focused
>> change whose implications are limited and more easily understood.
> 
> There's nothing practical with requiring users to pass a kernel option
> to make kdump work.  It's a workaround, sure, but it's not a proper
> fix.

And once you have to do that anyway, you might as well just do the kdump
load high...

	-hpa


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