RE: kdump detection in SCSI drivers

[Mukker, Atul]

How do we "know" when little memory is available?

Other suggestion which came about was to parse the kernel command line
and look for "elfcorehdr=". Is this ok? Is kernel command line visible
to the SCSI drivers?

Thanks
-Atul

-----Original Message-----
From: Pavel Machek [mailto:pavel@xxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 6:43 AM
To: Mukker, Atul
Cc: Linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: kdump detection in SCSI drivers

> Hi,
> 
> Is there a standard way for drivers (RAID) to detect if the current
> kernel is running in kdump mode? We would like to adjust driver
behavior
> dynamically when kdump is active by scaling down resources.

Perhaps you should be automatically using little resources when little
memory is available, or something? 

With upcomping kjump patches, it is more "interesting" than kdump
vs. no kdump.
	
Pavel
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