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Commit: be089d79c46f5efa77fbdf03c5e576e220bf143f
Parent: c85d194bfd2e36c5254b8058c1f35cfce0dfa10a
Author: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
AuthorDate: Thu May 1 04:34:49 2008 -0700
Committer: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CommitDate: Thu May 1 08:04:00 2008 -0700
kexec: make extended crashkernel= syntax less confusing
The extended crashkernel syntax is a little confusing in the way it handles
ranges. eg:
crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
Means if the machine has between 512M and 2G of memory the crash region should
be 64M, and if the machine has 2G of memory the region should be 64M. Only if
the machine has more than 2G memory will 128M be allocated.
Although that semantic is correct, it is somewhat baffling. Instead I propose
that the end of the range means the first address past the end of the range,
ie: 512M up to but not including 2G.
[bwalle@suse.de: clarify inclusive/exclusive in crashkernel commandline in documentation]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 5 ++++-
kernel/kexec.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index d0ac72c..b8e52c0 100644
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -245,6 +245,8 @@ The syntax is:
crashkernel=<range1>:<size1>[,<range2>:<size2>,...][@offset]
range=start-[end]
+ 'start' is inclusive and 'end' is exclusive.
+
For example:
crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
@@ -253,10 +255,11 @@ This would mean:
1) if the RAM is smaller than 512M, then don't reserve anything
(this is the "rescue" case)
- 2) if the RAM size is between 512M and 2G, then reserve 64M
+ 2) if the RAM size is between 512M and 2G (exclusive), then reserve 64M
3) if the RAM size is larger than 2G, then reserve 128M
+
Boot into System Kernel
=======================
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index cb85c79..1c5fcac 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ static int __init parse_crashkernel_mem(char *cmdline,
}
/* match ? */
- if (system_ram >= start && system_ram <= end) {
+ if (system_ram >= start && system_ram < end) {
*crash_size = size;
break;
}
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