[PATCH 0/8] pseries: phyp dump: hypervisor-assisted dump

[Joel Schopp]

This looks like it is to a stable usable point now.  In my opinion it is 
ready to be merged into the next tree for 2.6.26.

Reviewed-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp at austin.ibm.com>


Manish Ahuja wrote:
> Changes from previous version:
>
> The only changes are in patch 2.
> moved early_init_dt_scan_phyp_dump from rtas.c to phyp_dump.c
> Added dummy function in phyp_dump.h
>
> Patch 3 required repatching due to changes to patch 2.
> Resubmitting all patches to avoid confusion.
>
> Thanks,
> Manish
>
>
> Michael Ellerman wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 22:53 -0600, Manish Ahuja wrote:
>>     
>>> The following series of patches implement a basic framework
>>> for hypervisor-assisted dump. The very first patch provides 
>>> documentation explaining what this is  :-) . Yes, its supposed
>>> to be an improvement over kdump.
>>>
>>> A list of open issues / todo list is included in the documentation.
>>> It also appears that the not-yet-released firmware versions this was tested 
>>> on are still, ahem, incomplete; this work is also pending.
>>>
>>> I have included most of the changes requested. Although, I did find
>>> one or two, fixed in a later patch file rather than the first location
>>> they appeared at.
>>>       
>> This series still doesn't build on !CONFIG_RTAS configs:
>> http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/629/
>>
>> This solution is to move early_init_dt_scan_phyp_dump() into
>> arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/phyp_dump.c and provide a dummy
>> implementation in asm-powerpc/phyp_dump.c for the !CONFIG_PHYP_DUMP
>> case.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>>     
>
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