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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:26:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c406d9c-e69c-4d09-bdfc-6cecb53f373a@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE9FiQUGxGveg__VHE0-f0zfuY1ivuDMpQmMb9p0ic5=Hyf91A@mail.gmail.com>

Then make the comment so it is actually possible to understand that.

Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:

>On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:59 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> On 04/11/2013 11:54 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>>> +             /*
>>> +              * two parts from lib/swiotlb.c:
>>> +              *      swiotlb size: user specified with swiotlb= or
>default.
>>> +              *      swiotlb overflow buffer: now is hardcoded to
>32k,
>>> +              *              round to 8M to cover more others.
>>> +              */
>>
>> This comment is incomprehensible.  "Cover more others"?
>
>i mean other buffers that may need to stay low, but we do not know
>them eactly yet.
>
>Thanks
>
>Yinghai

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-15  3:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-12  6:54 [PATCH -v5 0/4] x86, kdump: Fix crashkernel high with old kexec-tools Yinghai Lu
2013-04-12  6:54 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically Yinghai Lu
2013-04-15  1:59   ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-15  2:59     ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-15  3:26       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-04-12  6:54 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] kexec: use Crash kernel for Crash kernel low Yinghai Lu
2013-04-12  6:54 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] x86, kdump: Retore crashkernel= to allocate under 896M Yinghai Lu
2013-04-12  6:54 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] x86, kdump: Change crashkernel_high/low= to crashkernel=,high/low Yinghai Lu
2013-04-15  0:20   ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-04-12 20:07 ` [PATCH -v5 0/4] x86, kdump: Fix crashkernel high with old kexec-tools Vivek Goyal

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