x86: find offset for crashkernel reservation automatically

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This patch removes the need of the crashkernel=...@offset parameter to define
a fixed offset for crashkernel reservation. That feature can be used together
with a relocatable kernel where the kexec-tools relocate the kernel and
get the actual offset from /proc/iomem.

The use case is a kernel where the .text+.data+.bss is after 16M physical
memory (debug kernel with lockdep on x86_64 can cause that) which caused a
major pain in autoconfiguration in our distribution.

Also, that patch unifies crashdump architectures a bit since IA64 has
that semantics from the very beginning of the kdump port.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com
Cc: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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Bernhard Walle 2008-06-26 21:54:08 +02:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar

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