Re: [Patch 8/8] kexec: allow to shrink reserved memory

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Thu Aug 20 2009 - 20:37:03 EST


On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:15:56 +0800
Amerigo Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > The, problem is whether memmap is there or not. That's all.
> > plz see init sequence and check there are memmap.
> > If memory-for-crash is obtained via bootmem,
> > Don't you try to free memory hole ?
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> It looks like that mem_map has 'struct page' for the reserved memory, I
> checked my "early_node_map[] active PFN ranges" output, the reserved
> memory area for crash kernel is right in one range. Am I missing
> something here?
>
> I don't know why that oops comes out, maybe because of no PTE for thoese
> pages?
>
Hmm ? Could you show me the code you use ?

Thanks,
-Kame


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