[Patch 0/7] V2 Implement crashkernel=auto

From: Amerigo Wang
Date: Thu Aug 06 2009 - 02:20:01 EST



V1 -> V2:
- Use include/asm-generic/kexec.h, suggested by Neil.
- Rename a local variable, suggested by Fenghua.
- Fix some style problems found by checkpatch.pl.
- Unify the Kconfig docs.

This series of patch implements automatically reserved memory for crashkernel,
by introducing a new boot option "crashkernel=auto". This idea is from Neil.

In case of breaking user-space applications, it modifies this boot option after
it decides how much memory should be reserved.

On different arch, the threshold and reserved memory size is different. Please
refer patch 7/7 which contains an update for the documentation.

Note: This patchset was only tested on x86_64 with differernt memory sizes.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>

---
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++
arch/ia64/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++
arch/ia64/include/asm/kexec.h | 8 ++++++++
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++
arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h | 8 ++++++++
arch/x86/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++
arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h | 1 +
kernel/kexec.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
8 files changed, 97 insertions(+)

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