Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:53:08 +0530 | From | Vivek Goyal <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/5] Extended crashkernel command line |
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:01:10PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> [2007-09-11 08:15]: > > > > "offset" seems to be optional in the new syntax. What happens if user does > > not specify offset. I think crash_base will be set to zero and system will > > try to reserve x amount of memory start at zero? That would fail? > > That's handled in the architecture specific code -- because it's > different on each architecture and the architecture specific code does > memory reservation. IA64 already can handle this case (on IA64, > specifying 0 is the same than leaving out the base address, and that's > why I wanted to keep that semantics). I think it doesn't also make > sense on i386/x86_64 to choose 0 as real base address, because the > value below 1 MB is special for booting ... >
Ok. I see IA64 is handling this case. But in current patchset, i386 and x86_64 will try to reserve memory starting at zero? So we still got to handle this case in i386 and x86_64?
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