From: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
To: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, msalter@redhat.com,
linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, toshi.kani@hp.com, greg@kroah.com,
x86@kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, leif.lindholm@linaro.org,
James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, horms@verge.net.au,
bp@alien8.de, ebiederm@xmission.com, hpa@zytor.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@kernel.org, vgoyal@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 14/14] x86: kdebugfs do not use __va for getting setup_data virt addr
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:35:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131216163501.GB3873@console-pimps.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1387186235-15972-15-git-send-email-dyoung@redhat.com>
On Mon, 16 Dec, at 05:30:35PM, Dave Young wrote:
> kdump kernel will use memmap=exactmap kernel cmdline, but __va does not
> work in case memmap=exactmap, so let's always use ioremap_cache.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c | 35 +++++++++++------------------------
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
Dave, I've no idea why this change is necessary from the commit log. Is
it required for kexec to function on EFI? Why does __va() not work in
the memmap=exactmap case?
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-16 9:30 [PATCH v6 00/14] kexec kernel efi runtime support Dave Young
2013-12-16 9:30 ` [PATCH v6 01/14] x86/mm: sparse warning fix for early_memremap Dave Young
2013-12-16 9:30 ` [PATCH v6 02/14] efi: Use early_memremap and early_memunmap to fix sparse warnings Dave Young
2013-12-16 9:30 ` [PATCH v6 03/14] efi: remove unused variables in __map_region Dave Young
2013-12-16 9:30 ` [PATCH v6 04/14] efi: add a wrapper function efi_map_region_fixed Dave Young
2013-12-16 9:30 ` [PATCH v6 05/14] efi: reserve boot service fix Dave Young
2013-12-16 9:30 ` [PATCH v6 06/14] efi: cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode function Dave Young
2013-12-16 9:30 ` [PATCH v6 07/14] efi: export more efi table variable to sysfs Dave Young
2013-12-16 9:30 ` [PATCH v6 08/14] efi: export efi runtime memory mapping " Dave Young
2013-12-16 15:09 ` Matt Fleming
2013-12-17 6:13 ` Dave Young
2013-12-17 8:00 ` [PATCH v7 " Dave Young
2013-12-16 9:30 ` [PATCH v6 09/14] efi: passing kexec necessary efi data via setup_data Dave Young
2013-12-17 8:01 ` [PATCH v7 " Dave Young
2013-12-17 8:08 ` Dave Young
2013-12-16 9:30 ` [PATCH v6 10/14] efi: only print saved efi runtime maps instead of all memmap ranges for kexec Dave Young
2013-12-19 16:41 ` Matt Fleming
2013-12-20 1:35 ` Dave Young
2013-12-20 1:57 ` Dave Young
2013-12-16 9:30 ` [PATCH v6 11/14] x86: add xloadflags bit for efi runtime support on kexec Dave Young
2013-12-16 9:30 ` [PATCH v6 12/14] x86: export x86 boot_params to sysfs Dave Young
2013-12-16 9:30 ` [PATCH v6 13/14] x86: reserve setup_data ranges late after parsing memmap cmdline Dave Young
2013-12-16 9:30 ` [PATCH v6 14/14] x86: kdebugfs do not use __va for getting setup_data virt addr Dave Young
2013-12-16 16:35 ` Matt Fleming [this message]
2013-12-17 6:24 ` Dave Young
2013-12-17 6:53 ` Dave Young
2013-12-17 11:24 ` Matt Fleming
2013-12-18 9:29 ` Dave Young
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