[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] powerpc/cell: disable ptcal in case of kdump reboot

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Jun 12 17:39:21 EST 2008


On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 18:28 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > We used to do this correctly in case of a user triggered
> > kexec, but not for kdump.
> 
> Used to?

Sorry, wrong wording. I meant without this patch, it's correct
for kexec.
 
> > This patch disables ptcal from the cell specific
> > machine_crash_shutdown() callback. 
> 
> I'd rather you used the crash_shutdown_register() infrastructure Mikey
> added for EHEA - it's designed for just this sort of thing.

Thanks for pointing this out, I wasn't aware of that call.
New patch coming up.

	Arnd <><



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