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Re: [Patch v4] Do not reserve crashkernel high memory if crashkernel low memory reserving failed

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From Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject Re: [Patch v4] Do not reserve crashkernel high memory if crashkernel low memory reserving failed
Date Wed, 23 Sep 2015 02:10:01 +0200
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On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:02:55 +0800 Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> wrote:

> > 
> > >  	}
> > >  
> > >  	low_base = memblock_find_in_range(low_size, (1ULL<<32),
> > >  					low_size, alignment);
> > >  
> > >  	if (!low_base) {
> > > -		if (!auto_set)
> > > -			pr_info("crashkernel low reservation failed - No suitable area found.\n");
> > > -
> > > -		return;
> > > +		pr_info("crashkernel low reservation failed - No suitable area found.\n");
> > 
> > That's not a terribly useful message.  If kdump is now unavailable and
> > the operator needs to take some remedial action then we should inform
> > them of this.
> > 
> > Also, such a message should have higher severity than KERN_INFO?
> 
> Yes, how about KERN_ERR? It's an unexpected result from kdump side
> though it doesn't harm the normal kernel.

Sure, KERN_ERR is good.  Along with more useful message text.
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[Patch v4] Do not reserve crashkernel high memory if crashkernel low memory reserving failed Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> - 2015-09-22 13:50 +0200
  Re: [Patch v4] Do not reserve crashkernel high memory if crashkernel  low memory reserving failed Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> - 2015-09-22 16:00 +0200
  Re: [Patch v4] Do not reserve crashkernel high memory if  crashkernel low memory reserving failed Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-09-22 22:00 +0200
    Re: [Patch v4] Do not reserve crashkernel high memory if crashkernel  low memory reserving failed Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> - 2015-09-23 02:10 +0200
      Re: [Patch v4] Do not reserve crashkernel high memory if  crashkernel low memory reserving failed Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-09-23 02:10 +0200
        Re: [Patch v4] Do not reserve crashkernel high memory if crashkernel  low memory reserving failed Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> - 2015-09-23 02:30 +0200

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