kexec: premit reduction of the reserved memory size
authorAmerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:47:46 +0000 (16:47 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:20:13 +0000 (07:20 -0800)
Implement shrinking the reserved memory for crash kernel, if it is more
than enough.

For example, if you have already reserved 128M, now you just want 100M,
you can do:

# echo $((100*1024*1024)) > /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size

Note, you can only do this before loading the crash kernel.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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