Re: [Patch 0/8] V4 Implement crashkernel=auto

[Amerigo Wang]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> (cc linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxx)
>
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:54:12 -0400
> Amerigo Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
> > 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 8/8 which contains an update for the documentation.
> >
> > Patch 1/8 implements shrinking reserved memory at run-time, which is useful
> > when more than enough memory is reserved automatically.
> >
> > Note: This patchset was only tested on x86_64 with differernt memory sizes.
> >     
>
>
> I'd prefer that this change had been runtime tested on ia64 and powerpc
> and has had some quality review from relevant developers of those
> architectures.
>
> Looking at the cc's, I'm not sure that the powerpc guys even know about
> this work?
>
>   
Ok, let me try to find some ppc and ia64 machines in the company.. ;)

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