On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 08:52:58PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
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> * Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> [2007-09-09 19:27]:
> > >
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
> > ...
> > 
> > CONFIG_KEXEC or CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP?
> 
> Good question. The crashkernel parameter was CONFIG_KEXEC before, and
> I also wondered why, but I didn't change this because maybe there's
> some reason I don't know.
> 
> Vivek, do you know why this was CONFIG_KEXEC?
> 
> 

Bernhard,

As Eric mentioned, CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP has been used for all dump capturing
infrastructure and rest of the kexec and kexec on panic functionality
has been put under CONFIG_KEXEC. 

Keeping memory reservation under CONFIG_KEXEC helps in a sense when
somebody is not using a relocatable kernel and uses a custom kernel for dump
capture. In that case he does not have to enable CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP in the
first kernel.

Thanks
Vivek
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