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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/8] Initial implementation of kdump for ARM
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 19:14:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100705181421.GA27771@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C31FC27.4010102@stericsson.com>

On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 05:37:11PM +0200, Per Fransson wrote:
> On 07/05/2010 04:19 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 04:05:56PM +0200, Per Fransson wrote:
> >> Well, I had another suggestion in my last mail.
> > 
> > Which is going to need per-CPU type support in order to achieve.  Do
> > we really want to implement relocate_new_kernel for each of the 24
> > CPU types which we currently support?
> > 
> 
> Perhaps not. Couldn't the variable delay be macrofied then, i.e. a
> macro like
> 
> MMU_DISABLED_DELAY_AND_EXEC(<asm instr>)
> 
> which would do nothing for an appropriate amount of time and put the
> instruction in the last MMU mapped slot?

There is no "appropriate amount of time" - some CPUs depend on many
effects that a "3 nops and you'll be fine" approach doesn't work.

Also, what about kernels that support multiple different CPU types.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-05 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-05  6:54 [PATCH v2 0/8] Initial implementation of kdump for ARM Mika Westerberg
2010-05-05  6:54 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] arm: kdump: reserve memory for crashkernel Mika Westerberg
2010-05-05  6:54 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] arm: kdump: implement crash_setup_regs() Mika Westerberg
2010-05-05  6:54 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] arm: kdump: implement machine_crash_shutdown() Mika Westerberg
2010-05-05  6:54 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] arm: kdump: skip indirection page when crashing Mika Westerberg
2010-05-05  6:54 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] arm: kdump: implement copy_oldmem_page() Mika Westerberg
2010-05-05  6:54 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] arm: allow passing an ELF64 header to elf_check_arch() Mika Westerberg
2010-05-10 11:20   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-05-10 12:09     ` Mika Westerberg
2010-05-10 12:21       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-05-11  7:17         ` Mika Westerberg
2010-07-16  8:14         ` Mika Westerberg
2010-08-25  2:40           ` Lei Wen
2010-08-25 12:29             ` Mika Westerberg
2010-05-05  6:54 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] arm: kdump: add support for elfcorehdr= parameter Mika Westerberg
2010-05-05  6:54 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] arm: kdump: add CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP Kconfig option Mika Westerberg
2010-05-25  8:19 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] Initial implementation of kdump for ARM Mika Westerberg
2010-06-11  6:36   ` Mika Westerberg
2010-07-02 12:48     ` Per Fransson
2010-07-05  8:28       ` Mika Westerberg
2010-07-05 10:01         ` Per Fransson
2010-07-05 10:18           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-05 10:34             ` Per Fransson
2010-07-05 11:31               ` Mika Westerberg
2010-07-05 12:04                 ` Per Fransson
2010-07-05 13:55               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-05 14:05                 ` Per Fransson
2010-07-05 14:19                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-05 15:37                     ` Per Fransson
2010-07-05 16:08                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-07-05 18:14                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2010-07-06  8:30                         ` Per Fransson
2010-07-07  7:29                           ` Mika Westerberg
2010-07-08  8:52                             ` Per Fransson
2010-07-12  8:20                               ` Mika Westerberg
2010-07-09  3:38                 ` Simon Horman
2010-07-09  8:19                   ` Per Fransson

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