Andrew Morton wrote:

(cc linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org)

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:54:12 -0400
Amerigo Wang [off-list ref] wrote:

  

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This series of patch implements automatically reserved memory for crashkernel,
by introducing a new boot option "crashkernel=auto". This idea is from Neil.

In case of breaking user-space applications, it modifies this boot option after
it decides how much memory should be reserved.

On different arch, the threshold and reserved memory size is different. Please
refer patch 8/8 which contains an update for the documentation.

Patch 1/8 implements shrinking reserved memory at run-time, which is useful
when more than enough memory is reserved automatically.

Note: This patchset was only tested on x86_64 with differernt memory sizes.
    

I'd prefer that this change had been runtime tested on ia64 and powerpc
and has had some quality review from relevant developers of those
architectures.

Looking at the cc's, I'm not sure that the powerpc guys even know about
this work?

  

Ok, let me try to find some ppc and ia64 machines in the company.. ;)