SIVE flag in crashkernel reservation code to detect collisions between crashkernel area and already used memory. This patch: Change the reserve_bootmem() function to accept a new flag BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE. If that flag is set, the function returns with -EBUSY if the memory already has been reserved in the past. This is to avoid conflicts. Because that code runs before SMP initialisation, there's no race condition inside reserve_bootmem_core(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build] Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle Cc: Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds ØÙ˜ª‘+x