[PATCH 2/2] powerpc/fadump: avoid holes in boot memory area when fadump is registered

[Hari Bathini]

On Friday 05 May 2017 05:13 PM, Pingfan Liu wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Hari Bathini" <hbathini at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> To: "Michael Ellerman" <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
>> Cc: "linuxppc-dev" <linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org>, "Pingfan Liu" <piliu at redhat.com>, "Mahesh J Salgaonkar"
>> <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Sent: Friday, May 5, 2017 1:54:05 AM
>> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/fadump: avoid holes in boot memory area when fadump is registered
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>> To register fadump, boot memory area - the size of low memory chunk that
>> is required for a kernel to boot successfully when booted with restricted
>> memory, is assumed to have no holes. But this memory area is currently
> The continuous is required by fadump code, not by the firmware itself, right?
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Hmmm... Firmware takes a memory region,what we are calling boot memory
area, as input to be backed up at the time of crash. The same memory
region is used by kernel to boot after the crash. Firmware doesn't allow
holes in this memory region at the time of registering...

Thanks
Hari