From: akpm@osdl.org <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:51:51 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] kexec: increase max segment limit
X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=720e1a9f1c3bfa9f72cded56962e7f092fefaaed;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git

[PATCH] kexec: increase max segment limit


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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>

- In some cases, the number of segments, on a kexec load, exceeds the
  existing cap of 8.  This patch increases the KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX limit from 8
  to 16.

Signed-off-by: Rachita Kothiyal <rachita@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/kexec.h b/include/linux/kexec.h
index c1cd9b31159e..94abc07cb164 100644
--- a/include/linux/kexec.h
+++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ typedef unsigned long kimage_entry_t;
 #define IND_DONE         0x4
 #define IND_SOURCE       0x8
 
-#define KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX 8
+#define KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX 16
 struct kexec_segment {
 	void __user *buf;
 	size_t bufsz;