From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
To: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: kexec, x86: Need a new e820 type support for kexec
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 08:27:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1437748031.3214.374.camel@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150724055053.GB19975@dhcp-128-28.nay.redhat.com>
On Fri, 2015-07-24 at 13:50 +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 07/24/15 at 01:31pm, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 07/23/15 at 06:26pm, Toshi Kani wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > ACPI 6.0 defines a new type in e820, AddressRangePersistentMemory
> > > (7), for
> > > NVDIMM. On a system with NVDIMM, kexec displays the following error
> > > message and sets it to RANGE_RESERVED as the fallback type.
> > >
> > > Unknown type (Persistent Memory) while parsing
> > > /sys/firmware/memmap/34/type. Please report this as bug. Using
> > > RANGE_RESERVED now.
> > >
> > > This new type is defined in "arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/e820.h" in 4.2
> > > -rc1
> > > as follows.
> > >
> > > #define E820_PMEM 7
>
> Let me check this and try to make a patch, it may need your help to test
> it.
Great! Yes, I'd be glad to help testing your changes.
Thanks,
-Toshi
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-24 0:26 kexec, x86: Need a new e820 type support for kexec Toshi Kani
2015-07-24 5:31 ` Baoquan He
2015-07-24 5:50 ` Baoquan He
2015-07-24 14:27 ` Toshi Kani [this message]
2015-07-24 14:37 ` Toshi Kani
2015-08-06 8:12 ` Baoquan He
2015-08-07 1:13 ` Toshi Kani
2015-08-18 8:34 ` Baoquan He
2015-08-18 14:55 ` Toshi Kani
2015-08-18 8:53 ` Baoquan He
2015-08-18 15:01 ` Toshi Kani
2015-08-19 2:53 ` Baoquan He
2015-08-19 5:36 ` Toshi Kani
2015-08-19 5:59 ` Baoquan He
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