[PATCH V2 2/2] fadump: Register the memory reserved by fadump

Srikar Dronamraju srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Aug 29 23:12:46 AEST 2016


* Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> [2016-08-04 14:01:33]:

> > Register the memory reserved by fadump, so that the cache sizes are
> > calculated based on the free memory (i.e Total memory - reserved
> > memory).
> 
> Looks harmless enough to me.  I'll schedule the patches for 4.8.  But
> it sounds like they should be backported into older kernels?
> 

Based on the v2 feedback, I just posted a v3 at
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472476010-4709-1-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
that tries to reduce the large system hash based on tha reserved memory.
Hence please drop the v2 patches.

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Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju



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