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    [POWERPC] pseries/phyp dump: Reserve a variable amount of space at boot · 37ddd5d0
    Manish Ahuja authored
    This changes the way we calculate how much space to reserve for the
    pHyp dump.  Currently we reserve 256MB only.  With this change, the
    code first checks to see if an amount has been specified on the boot
    command line with the "phyp_dump_reserve_size" option, and if so, uses
    that much.
    
    Otherwise it computes 5% of total ram and rounds it down to a multiple
    of 256MB, and uses the larger of that or 256MB.
    
    This is for large systems with a lot of memory (10GB or more).  The
    aim is to have more space available for the kernel on reboot on
    machines with more resources.  Although the dump will be collected
    pretty fast and the memory released really early on allowing the
    machine to have the full memory available, this alleviates any issues
    that can be caused by having way too little memory on very very large
    systems during those few minutes.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarManish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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