[PATCH 2/2] powerpc/fadump: update about offset where fadump is reserved

Hari Bathini hbathini at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon May 22 19:34:47 AEST 2017


With commit f6e6bedb7731 ("powerpc/fadump: Reserve memory at an offset
closer to bottom of RAM"), memory for fadump is no longer reserved at
the top of RAM. But there are still a few places which say so. Change
them appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt |    4 ++--
 arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c                     |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt
index 9cabaf8..bdd344a 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ as follows:
          boot successfully. For syntax of crashkernel= parameter,
          refer to Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt. If any offset is
          provided in crashkernel= parameter, it will be ignored
-         as fadump reserves memory at end of RAM for boot memory
-         dump preservation in case of a crash.
+         as fadump uses a predefined offset to reserve memory
+         for boot memory dump preservation in case of a crash.
 
 -- After the low memory (boot memory) area has been saved, the
    firmware will reset PCI and other hardware state.  It will
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
index c0db844..63c4281 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
@@ -218,8 +218,8 @@ static inline unsigned long fadump_calculate_reserve_size(void)
 
 	/*
 	 * Check if the size is specified through crashkernel= cmdline
-	 * option. If yes, then use that but ignore base as fadump
-	 * reserves memory at end of RAM.
+	 * option. If yes, then use that but ignore base as fadump reserves
+	 * memory at a predefined offset.
 	 */
 	ret = parse_crashkernel(boot_command_line, memblock_phys_mem_size(),
 				&size, &base);



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