Re: kdump broken on 2.6.37-rc4

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/16/2010 02:01 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> 
> Yinghai, 
> 
> On my system above change works fine and I can boot into second kernel. So
> it will boil down to knowing what are the exact constraints on heap for
> decompression and for 32bit can we allow heap upto 896MB or not.
> 

By the way, 896 MiB is almost certainly too aggressive; the vmalloc area
is adjustable and there are other bits that can chew off a few MiB of
address space.  I would suggest we either make it 512 or 768 MiB *and*
fix the brk limit.

Opinions?

	-hpa
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