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

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2014 08:26:09 -0400
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	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

On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 05:48:32PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 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.

I am fine with a boot option to suggest low memory profile and kdump
scripts can be modified to automatically append that command line option
to second kernel.

Thanks
Vivek
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