Re: [PATCH 1/1] kernel/crash_core.c - Add crashkernel=auto for x86 and ARM

[john . p . donnelly]

On 11/22/20 9:47 PM, Dave Young wrote:
> Hi Guilherme,
> On 11/22/20 at 12:32pm, Guilherme Piccoli wrote:
> > Hi Dave and Kairui, thanks for your responses! OK, if that makes sense
> > to you I'm fine with it. I'd just recommend to test recent kernels in
> > multiple distros with the minimum "range" to see if 64M is enough for
> > crashkernel, maybe we'd need to bump that.
>
> Giving the different kernel configs and the different userspace
> initramfs setup it is hard to get an uniform value for all distributions,
> but we can have an interface/kconfig-option for them to provide a value like this patch
> is doing. And it could be improved like Kairui said about some known
> kernel added extra values later, probably some more improvements if
> doable.
>
> Thanks
> Dave

Hi.

Are we going to move forward with implementing this for X86 and Arm ?

If other platform maintainers want to include this CONFIG option in 
their configuration settings they have a starting point.

Thank you,

John.

( I am not currently on many of the included dist lists  in this email, 
so hopefully key contributors are included in this exchange )