[PATCH 2/8] pseries: phyp dump: reserve-release proof-of-concept

[Paul Mackerras]

Manish Ahuja writes:

> Initial patch for reserving memory in early boot, and freeing it later.
> If the previous boot had ended with a crash, the reserved memory would contain
> a copy of the crashed kernel data.

[snip]

> +static void __init reserve_crashed_mem(void)
> +{
> +	unsigned long base, size;
> +
> +	if (phyp_dump_info->phyp_dump_is_active) {
> +		/* Reserve *everything* above RMR. We'll free this real soon.*/
> +		base = PHYP_DUMP_RMR_END;
> +		size = lmb_end_of_DRAM() - base;
> +
> +		/* XXX crashed_ram_end is wrong, since it may be beyond
> +	 	* the memory_limit, it will need to be adjusted. */
> +		lmb_reserve(base, size);
> +
> +		phyp_dump_info->init_reserve_start = base;
> +		phyp_dump_info->init_reserve_size = size;
> +	}
> +	else {
> +		size = phyp_dump_info->cpu_state_size +
> +			phyp_dump_info->hpte_region_size +
> +			PHYP_DUMP_RMR_END;
> +		base = lmb_end_of_DRAM() - size;
> +	printk(KERN_ERR "Manish reserve regular kernel space is %ld %ld\n", base, size);
> +		lmb_reserve(base, size);

This is still reserving memory even on systems that aren't running on
pHyp at all.  Please rework this so that no memory is reserved if the
system doesn't support phyp-assisted dump.

Paul.