From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: ath10k@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 6/7] ath10k: save firmware RAM and ROM BSS sections on crash
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 20:31:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oavttvrp.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53E6523F.1060001@candelatech.com> (Ben Greear's message of "Sat, 9 Aug 2014 09:54:23 -0700")
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> writes:
>> Third option is that we allocate crash dump buffers after the firmware
>> has been loaded and FW IEs are read. That way we don't allocate any
>> extra memory but the fundamental problem still persists.
>
> I'd prefer this third option..seems more elegant all around.
>
> I don't think you can do vmalloc in atomic context, btw. But, can do it
> on firmware load.
Ok, I'll look how to implement this.
--
Kalle Valo
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-08 20:28 [PATCH v5 0/7] ath10k: firmware crash dump Kalle Valo
2014-08-08 20:28 ` [PATCH v5 1/7] ath10k: add ath10k_pci_diag_* helpers Kalle Valo
2014-08-08 20:28 ` [PATCH v5 2/7] ath10k: provide firmware crash info via debugfs Kalle Valo
2014-08-08 22:26 ` Ben Greear
2014-08-09 5:52 ` Kalle Valo
2014-08-08 20:28 ` [PATCH v5 3/7] ath10k: save firmware debug log messages Kalle Valo
2014-08-08 20:29 ` [PATCH v5 4/7] ath10k: save firmware stack upon firmware crash Kalle Valo
2014-08-08 20:29 ` [PATCH v5 5/7] ath10k: dump exception stack contents on " Kalle Valo
2014-08-08 20:29 ` [PATCH v5 6/7] ath10k: save firmware RAM and ROM BSS sections on crash Kalle Valo
2014-08-08 22:36 ` Ben Greear
2014-08-09 6:05 ` Kalle Valo
2014-08-09 16:54 ` Ben Greear
2014-08-09 17:31 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2014-08-08 20:29 ` [PATCH v5 7/7] ath10k: rename ath10k_pci_hif_dump_area() to ath10k_pci_firmware_crashed() Kalle Valo
2014-08-08 21:32 ` [PATCH v5 0/7] ath10k: firmware crash dump Ben Greear
2014-08-09 5:50 ` Kalle Valo
2014-08-09 16:51 ` Ben Greear
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