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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically
On 03/11/2013 01:19 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> The problem with this argument here is that we are spiraling down the
> drain of increasing user-visible complexity in order to not break
> existing but exotic use cases. We need to stop and reverse this trend.
> I want to make a few observations on this:
>
> 1. Running with an archaic kexec-tools should be considered an anomaly.
> If necessary, we could introduce a kernel option to let the kernel know
> which kexec-tools version the user will use.
>
> 2. As long as memory is available, there is always the option to shift
> memory around to accommodate the crashkernel. That probably should have
> been done all along.
>
> 3. The memory size reserved should be deduced automatically to the
> greatest possible extent.
>

The really big picture problem here is that the host kernel is expected
to predict at boot time what will happen in the future: what are the
requirements of the kdump kernel, and its tools, which hasn't been
loaded yet?

Can we get past that as a fundamental problem?

-hpa



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