netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] Make is_kdump_kernel() accessible from modules

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Date:	Sun, 27 Jul 2014 17:48:32 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
	Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] Make is_kdump_kernel() accessible from modules

Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm sending this patchset to net-next because it touches a commit [1] that was
> applied lately to net-next.

It would be better to have a generic function for "run with small
memory", that can be also triggered in other ways, e.g. a sysctl or
a boot opion, with kdump just another user.

There are low memory cases which are not kdump.

-Andi

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