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SubjectRe: [patch 4/5] x86: use BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE on 32-bit
* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [2008-06-23 12:53]:
>
> > [1] 62b5ebe062c2801f6d40480ae3b91a64c8c8e6cb
>
> but note that this too has dependencies, it relies on:
>
> # tip/x86/numa: ddeb8ef: x86: add flags parameter to reserve_bootmem_generic()
> # tip/x86/numa: 62b5ebe: x86: use reserve_bootmem_generic() to reserve crashkernel memory on x86_64

The 2nd is not the dependency but the commit itself.

> so i've initially delayed the whole topic to v2.6.27.

Ok, you have more experience which patches should go into 2.6.26 at
that point of time, so it's acceptable for me.

> I've attached both patches below - are they really urgent enough to be
> propagated to tip/x86/urgent and be sent to Linus? AFAICS these are
> ancient issues with kernel crashdumping.

I only brought up that topic again because it's a regression between
2.6.22 and 2.6.23 caused by 5c3391f9f749023a49c64d607da4fb49263690eb.



Bernhard
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Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development


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