Re: [PATCH] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Mon Mar 11 2013 - 15:44:17 EST


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:39:56PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> No need to use crashkernel_high, we can just cashkernel=X@Y instead.
> >
> > crashkernel=X@Y is little different. It assumes user knows the memory
> > map and location "Y" is fixed. There might not be any memory at "Y".
>
> then use crashkernel=4G?

But that will reserve 4G of memory. I just want 128/256 MB of memory
reserved for normal cases. This is even worse than crashkernel=X@Y.

Thanks
Vivek

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