[PATCH 0/6] kdump support for ppc64

[Olaf Hering]

 On Mon, Jan 16, R Sharada wrote:

> Review and test comments, inputs are welcome 

It doesnt seem to work for me:

satsuma:~ # uname -a
Linux satsuma 2.6.16-rc1-git2-kexec #7 SMP Thu Jan 19 22:08:43 CET 2006 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux
satsuma:~ # kexec -p 2.6.16-rc1-git2-kdump/vmlinux  --append="root=/dev/sdd2 init=/bin/bash --login"
get memory ranges:1
machine_apply_elf_rel(51) mem_ehdr 0xfffffe39ce8 r_type 29 location 0x10097aea address 284401a value 2847bc0
machine_apply_elf_rel(51) mem_ehdr 0xfffffe39ce8 r_type 27 location 0x10097aee address 284401e value 2847bc0
machine_apply_elf_rel(51) mem_ehdr 0xfffffe39ce8 r_type 5 location 0x10097af6 address 2844026 value 2847bc0
machine_apply_elf_rel(51) mem_ehdr 0xfffffe39ce8 r_type 4 location 0x10097afa address 284402a value 2847bc0
machine_apply_elf_rel(51) mem_ehdr 0xfffffe39ce8 r_type 29 location 0x10097b02 address 2844032 value 2847bb0
machine_apply_elf_rel(51) mem_ehdr 0xfffffe39ce8 r_type 27 location 0x10097b06 address 2844036 value 2847bb0
machine_apply_elf_rel(51) mem_ehdr 0xfffffe39ce8 r_type 5 location 0x10097b0e address 284403e value 2847bb0
machine_apply_elf_rel(51) mem_ehdr 0xfffffe39ce8 r_type 4 location 0x10097b12 address 2844042 value 2847bb0
machine_apply_elf_rel(51) mem_ehdr 0xfffffe39ce8 r_type a location 0x10097b1c address 284404c value 0
REL24 -42221644 out of range!
satsuma:~ # printf '%x\n' -42221644
fffffffffd7bbfb4

should it handle a value of 0 somehow, perhaps ignore it?

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