From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from e23smtp05.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.147]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1RDCY5-0003X4-Sf for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:53:31 +0000 Received: from d23relay03.au.ibm.com (d23relay03.au.ibm.com [202.81.31.245]) by e23smtp05.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p9A9kS5L032417 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:46:28 +1100 Received: from d23av02.au.ibm.com (d23av02.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.138]) by d23relay03.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id p9A9rMFh2404378 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:53:22 +1100 Received: from d23av02.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av02.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id p9A9rMu6027227 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:53:22 +1100 Message-ID: <4E92C08F.4050908@in.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:23:19 +0530 From: Suzuki Poulose MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec: powerpc: crash_dump: No backup region for PPC BookE References: <20111003101746.30979.44424.stgit@suzukikp.in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20111003101746.30979.44424.stgit@suzukikp.in.ibm.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=twosheds.infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Simon Horman Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar , "kexec@lists.infradead.org" , "M. Mohan Kumar" , "Suzuki K. Poulose" , Vivek Goyal On 10/03/11 15:48, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: > Disable backup regions for BookE in case of a CRASH Dump, as they can > be run from anywhere. > > The patch introduces --with-booke option to support the BookE. > > With the patch, we get : > > ## On a 256M machine: > > # busybox cat /proc/cmdline > init=/bin/init console=ttyS0,16550 crashkernel=128M@100M > # kexec -p root/vmlinux > usable memory rgns size:1 base:6400000 size:8000000 > CRASH MEMORY RANGES > 0000000000000000-0000000006400000 > 000000000e400000-0000000010000000 > Command line after adding elfcorehdr: elfcorehdr=112380K > Command line after adding elfcorehdr: elfcorehdr=112380K savemaxmem=256M > > Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose Simon, Could you please pick up the patch, if no one has any issues ? Thanks Suzuki _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec