From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from e06smtp11.uk.ibm.com ([195.75.94.107]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Uzll6-0007It-9O for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:48:29 +0000 Received: from /spool/local by e06smtp11.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:42:11 +0100 Received: from b06cxnps4074.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06relay11.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.109.196]) by d06dlp01.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D0717D8063 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:49:36 +0100 (BST) Received: from d06av06.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av06.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.37.217]) by b06cxnps4074.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r6IAlkK066519228 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:47:46 GMT Received: from d06av06.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d06av06.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r6IAlvZQ011986 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 04:47:57 -0600 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:47:54 +0200 From: Martin Schwidefsky Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] kdump: Allow ELF header creation in new kernel Message-ID: <20130718124754.7453756e@mschwide> In-Reply-To: <20130718124004.098b85f4@holzheu> References: <20130717180049.3b9c6ec8@holzheu> <20130717214207.GB27633@redhat.com> <20130718124004.098b85f4@holzheu> Mime-Version: 1.0 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=twosheds.infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Michael Holzheu Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, Heiko Carstens , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Willeke , HATAYAMA Daisuke , Andrew Morton , Vivek Goyal On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:40:04 +0200 Michael Holzheu wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:42:07 -0400 > Vivek Goyal wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 06:00:49PM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote: > > [snip] > > > > But this is all additional effort now and would not be necessary if we > > > integrate this patch series in 3.11. > > > > > > Perhaps we should let Andrew decide here. > > > > Hi Michael, > > > > Given the fact that andrew too prefers a fix to get s390 working at this > > stage can we modify s390 copy_from_oldmem() to be able to copy to > > vmalloc() memory area. > > > > For mmap(), let us disable it on s390. And rest of the cleanups w.r.t > > ELF header swap etc, let us now target that for 3.12. > > > > Sounds reasonable? > > Hi Vivek, > > Ok this is not our preferred solution but we can't expect that life is > always easy ;-) > > Our s390 kernel maintainer Martin Schwidefsky agreed to send the following > two patches upstream for 3.11: > > * s390/kdump: Disable mmap for s390 > * s390/kdump: Allow copy_oldmem_page() copy to virtual memory Patches have been added to git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux.git features They will go upstream with my next pull request. -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec