[PATCH v3 1/2] powerpc/fadump: use static allocation for reserved memory ranges

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Wed May 6 12:51:03 AEST 2020


On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 08:56:09 UTC, Hari Bathini wrote:
> At times, memory ranges have to be looked up during early boot, when
> kernel couldn't be initialized for dynamic memory allocation. In fact,
> reserved-ranges look up is needed during FADump memory reservation.
> Without accounting for reserved-ranges in reserving memory for FADump,
> MPIPL boot fails with memory corruption issues. So, extend memory
> ranges handling to support static allocation and populate reserved
> memory ranges during early boot.
> 
> Fixes: dda9dbfeeb7a ("powerpc/fadump: consider reserved ranges while releasing memory")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini at linux.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.ibm.com>

Series applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/02c04e374e176ae3a3f64a682f80702f8d2fb65d

cheers


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