Hi!
> How do we "know" when little memory is available?
Kernel already scales its hash tables according to total RAM
available, perhaps you can use similar mechanism?
> Other suggestion which came about was to parse the kernel command line
> and look for "elfcorehdr=". Is this ok? Is kernel command line visible
> to the SCSI drivers?
Kernel command line probably is visible, but I'd recommend against
doing that.
Pavel
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: kdump detection in SCSI drivers
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a standard way for drivers (RAID) to detect if the current
> > kernel is running in kdump mode? We would like to adjust driver
> behavior
> > dynamically when kdump is active by scaling down resources.
>
> Perhaps you should be automatically using little resources when little
> memory is available, or something?
>
> With upcomping kjump patches, it is more "interesting" than kdump
> vs. no kdump.
>
> Pavel
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