[PATCH v4 1/7] powerpc/fadump: Move the metadata region to start of the reserved area.

[Nicholas Piggin]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:34:18 +0530
Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> From: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Currently the metadata region that holds crash info structure and ELF core
> header is placed towards the end of reserved memory area. This patch places
> it at the beginning of the reserved memory area. It also introduces
> additional dump section called metadata section to communicate location
> of metadata region to 2nd kernel. This patch also maintains the
> compatibility between production/capture kernels irrespective of their
> kernel versions. Both combination older/newer and newer/older works fine.

Trying to look at the patches it might help me if you document reasons
for why this change is made changelog, even if it may be obvious to
someone who knows the code better.

I thought you could include the documentation change in this patch as
well, but maybe that's a matter of preference.

Thanks,
Nick