> Hi,
>
> Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> writes:
>
> > 2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us
> > know.
> >
> > ------------------
> > From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
> >
> > commit d3942cff620bea073fc4e3c8ed878eb1e84615ce upstream
> >
> > This patch uses the BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE for crashkernel reservation also for
> > i386 and prints a error message on failure.
> >
> > The patch is still for 2.6.26 since it is only bug fixing. The unification
> > of reserve_crashkernel() between i386 and x86_64 should be done for 2.6.27.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> >
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c | 10 ++++++++--
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
> > @@ -483,10 +483,16 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(v
> > (unsigned long)(crash_size >> 20),
> > (unsigned long)(crash_base >> 20),
> > (unsigned long)(total_mem >> 20));
> > +
> > + if (reserve_bootmem(crash_base, crash_size,
> > + BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE) < 0) {
> > + printk(KERN_INFO "crashkernel reservation "
> > + "failed - memory is in use\n");
> > + return;
> > + }
>
> You will also need the patch from
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/21/103 to
> make sure reserve_bootmem() is not void (*)().
