Re: [PATCH -v5 0/4] x86, kdump: Fix crashkernel high with old kexec-tools

2013-04-12 Thread Vivek Goyal
Hi hpa, Can you please consider including these patches for 3.9. Today, another kdump user ran into issues when he tried to use latest kernel (3.9-rcx) with existing kexec-tools. Obiviously kernel loading failed due to crashkernel memory being reserved too high. Thanks Vivek On Thu, Apr 11, 2013

[PATCH -v5 0/4] x86, kdump: Fix crashkernel high with old kexec-tools

2013-04-11 Thread Yinghai Lu
Vivek found some problems with old kexec-tools. We keep the old crashkernel=X to old behavoir, so it will not break old kexec-tools. Add crashkernel=X,high to support new kexec-tools that supports loading high. when high is used, memblock will search from top to low. if the allocated one is above