[Patch ] Kexec Kdump support for POWER6

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Thu May 31 00:33:26 EST 2007


On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 10:50:27AM +0530, Sachin P. Sant wrote:
> Paul, here is the final version of the patch with all review
> comments incorporated. 
> 
> Thanks
> -Sachin
> 
> 

> * On Power machines supporting VRMA, Kexec/Kdump does not work.
> * Hypervisor stores VRMA mapping used by the OS, in the hpte hash tables.
> * Make sure these hpte entries are left untouched.
> *
> * This patch also adds plpar_pte_read_raw() on the lines of
> * plpar_pte_remove_raw().
> 
> Signed-off-by : Sachin Sant <sachinp at in.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by : Mohan Kumar M <mohan at in.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>


-Olof




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