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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20140729.164632.2258407062406773850.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:46:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vgoyal@...hat.com
Cc:	andi@...stfloor.org, amirv@...lanox.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ogerlitz@...lanox.com,
	yevgenyp@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] Make is_kdump_kernel() accessible from
 modules

From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 08:26:09 -0400

> 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.

I'm therefore going to assume that this patch series will be updated when the
new facility is added.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html