Re: [PATCH] kexec: use Crash kernel for Crash kernel low

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Tue Apr 02 2013 - 11:46:21 EST


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 07:45:36AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> [..]
>> 2. keep thing unified when new kexec-tools is used: always high.
>
> I think this is wrong. What if system does not have more than 4G of
> memory. crashkernel=x,high will fail. So just because we have new version
> of kexec-tools, it does not mean that one can always use crashkernel=x,high.

no, it will not fail.

If the system have less 4G, and memblock will still find the ram for us.

Thanks

Yinghai
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