Re: [PATCH] x86, kdump: crashkernel=X try to reserve below 896Mfirst, then try below 4G, then MAXMEM

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Thu Oct 24 2013 - 15:25:16 EST


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:15:25PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> Also keeping things simple by not trying to *impose* a new crashkernel=
> syntax on existing crashkernel=xM users.

Existing user that have crashkernel=xM working with their old kernel
and old kexec-tools, they still could keep their old command line and
old kexec-tools
with new updated kernel.
We should not change semantics to surprise them.

Thanks

Yinghai
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