[PATCH 11/12] powerpc: Add arch-dependant copy_oldmem_page

[Michael Ellerman]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 00:17, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 00:07 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > --- kexec.orig/include/asm-powerpc/kexec.h
> > +++ kexec/include/asm-powerpc/kexec.h
> > @@ -30,6 +30,8 @@
> >  #define KEXEC_ARCH KEXEC_ARCH_PPC
> >  #endif
> >
> > +#define HAVE_ARCH_COPY_OLDMEM_PAGE
> > +
> >  #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
>
> Isn't something like that more properly done in Kconfig?  I find it very
> hard to trace down exactly what CONFIG options it takes to get some of
> those #defines to happen.  Kconfig makes it much more clear.

That's a bit of a hack at the moment, you might be right that Kconfig would be 
better. I believe there's some guys working on Kdump for x86-64 that have 
already got the generic infrastructure for this in place, so we'll wait and 
see what they've done.

cheers

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