Bug 725484

Summary: kexec-tools: x86: Start using nr_cpus=1 instead of maxcpus=1
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal>
Component: kexec-toolsAssignee: Cong Wang <amwang>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Chao Ye <cye>
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Priority: high    
Version: 6.2CC: anderson, jburke, jstancek, phan, qcai, rkhan
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: kexec-tools-2_0_0-196_el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Vivek Goyal 2011-07-25 15:32:34 UTC 
Description of problem:

Using nr_cpus=1 for kdump kenrel saves memory required in second kernel. Start using that for x86 and x86_64. Do not switch it for powerpc yet as kernel is not equipped to handle that yet.

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Comment 1 Vivek Goyal 2011-07-25 15:34:22 UTC 
Kernel patches for x86_64 have been committed in version kernel-2.6.32-171.el6. So we should be good to modify kexec-tools now.
Comment 3 Cong Wang 2011-07-26 06:58:27 UTC 
Created attachment 515185 [details]
Proposed patch
Comment 4 Cong Wang 2011-07-26 07:21:17 UTC 
Brew build:
https://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/taskinfo?taskID=3516689
Comment 6 Chao Ye 2011-09-16 09:05:52 UTC 
Tested with Kdump Tier1, no regression found. Change status to VERIFIED.
https://tcms.engineering.redhat.com/run/26802/
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 18:19:30 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1532.html