Re: [v2 1/5] arm64: kdump: reserve memory for crash dump kernel

2015-05-12 Thread AKASHI Takahiro
On 05/11/2015 06:41 PM, Baoquan He wrote: On 05/11/15 at 05:17pm, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: On 05/11/2015 04:54 PM, Baoquan He wrote: In this patch you reserve a separate memory region in 1st kernel to store elfcorehdr. I am wondering why you don't call add_buffer in kexec-tools directly. Like thi

Re: [v2 1/5] arm64: kdump: reserve memory for crash dump kernel

2015-05-11 Thread Baoquan He
On 05/11/15 at 05:17pm, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: > On 05/11/2015 04:54 PM, Baoquan He wrote: > >In this patch you reserve a separate memory region in 1st kernel to > >store elfcorehdr. I am wondering why you don't call add_buffer in > >kexec-tools directly. Like this you can get a region from reserve

Re: [v2 1/5] arm64: kdump: reserve memory for crash dump kernel

2015-05-11 Thread AKASHI Takahiro
On 05/11/2015 04:54 PM, Baoquan He wrote: On 05/11/15 at 04:38pm, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: Hi Baoquan, On 04/28/2015 06:19 PM, Baoquan He wrote: +#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP +/* + * reserve_elfcorehdr() - reserves memory for elf core header + * + * This function reserves memory area given in "elfco

Re: [v2 1/5] arm64: kdump: reserve memory for crash dump kernel

2015-05-11 Thread Baoquan He
On 05/11/15 at 04:38pm, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: > Hi Baoquan, > > On 04/28/2015 06:19 PM, Baoquan He wrote: > >>+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP > >>+/* > >>+ * reserve_elfcorehdr() - reserves memory for elf core header > >>+ * > >>+ * This function reserves memory area given in "elfcorehdr=" kernel comma

Re: [v2 1/5] arm64: kdump: reserve memory for crash dump kernel

2015-05-11 Thread AKASHI Takahiro
Hi Baoquan, On 04/28/2015 06:19 PM, Baoquan He wrote: +#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP +/* + * reserve_elfcorehdr() - reserves memory for elf core header + * + * This function reserves memory area given in "elfcorehdr=" kernel command + * line parameter. The memory reserved is used by a dump capture ke

Re: [v2 1/5] arm64: kdump: reserve memory for crash dump kernel

2015-05-10 Thread AKASHI Takahiro
On 04/24/2015 07:11 PM, Mark Rutland wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 08:53:04AM +0100, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: On system kernel, the memory region used by crash dump kernel must be specified by "crashkernel=X@Y" boot parameter. reserve_crashkernel() will allocate the region in "System RAM" and res

Re: [v2 1/5] arm64: kdump: reserve memory for crash dump kernel

2015-04-28 Thread Baoquan He
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP > +/* > + * reserve_elfcorehdr() - reserves memory for elf core header > + * > + * This function reserves memory area given in "elfcorehdr=" kernel command > + * line parameter. The memory reserved is used by a dump capture kernel to > + * identify the memory used by pri

Re: [v2 1/5] arm64: kdump: reserve memory for crash dump kernel

2015-04-24 Thread Mark Rutland
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 08:53:04AM +0100, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: > On system kernel, the memory region used by crash dump kernel must be > specified by "crashkernel=X@Y" boot parameter. reserve_crashkernel() > will allocate the region in "System RAM" and reserve it for later use. > > On crash dump

[v2 1/5] arm64: kdump: reserve memory for crash dump kernel

2015-04-24 Thread AKASHI Takahiro
On system kernel, the memory region used by crash dump kernel must be specified by "crashkernel=X@Y" boot parameter. reserve_crashkernel() will allocate the region in "System RAM" and reserve it for later use. On crash dump kernel, memory region information in system kernel is described in a speci