Re: kdump broken on 2.6.37-rc4

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/17/2010 12:11 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>>
>> Can we do this in the meantime, just so we fix the immediate problem?
> 
> Peter, kexec-tools on 64bit currently seems to be allowing loding bzImage
> till 896MB. So I am not too keen it to reduce it to 768MB in kernel just
> because x86_64 could be booted from even higher addresses and somebody
> first has to do some auditing and experiments.
> 
> IMHO, we should have 768MB limit for 32bit and continue with 896MB limit for
> 64bit and once somebody makes x86_64 boot from even higher address reliably
> then we can change both kernel and kexec-tools.
> 

If we're splitting by architectures anyway, why not leave 32 bits at 512
MiB and thus making older crashkernels usable just in case someone has a
frozen toolset?

	-hpa
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