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From: bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com (Thiago Jung Bauermann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v21 1/8] arm64: kdump: reserve memory for crash dump kernel
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:11:45 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2543175.KeBui093Sr@hactar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160706075226.27609-2-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>

Am Mittwoch, 06 Juli 2016, 16:52:19 schrieb AKASHI Takahiro:
> On the startup of primary kernel, the memory region used by crash dump
> kernel must be specified by "crashkernel=" kernel parameter.
> reserve_crashkernel() will allocate and reserve the region for later use.
> 
> User space tools, like kexec-tools, will be able to find that region
> marked as "Crash kernel" in /proc/iomem.

On powerpc, userspace tools get everything from the device tree (exposed to 
userspace in /proc/device-tree/), not /proc/iomem.

In the case of the crashkernel reserved region, that information is in 
/chosen/linux,crashkernel-base and /chosen/linux,crashkernel-size.

Either way is fine I think. I'm just mentioning this for reference in case 
you want the ARM implementation to be closer to another arch which is also 
based on the device tree.

-- 
[]'s
Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-06 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-06  7:52 [PATCH v21 0/8] arm64: kdump support AKASHI Takahiro
2016-07-06  7:52 ` [PATCH v21 1/8] arm64: kdump: reserve memory for crash dump kernel AKASHI Takahiro
2016-07-06 17:00   ` Geoff Levand
2016-07-07  0:19     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2016-07-06 18:11   ` Thiago Jung Bauermann [this message]
2016-07-07  1:17     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2016-07-06  7:52 ` [PATCH v21 2/8] arm64: limit memory regions based on DT property, usable-memory AKASHI Takahiro
2016-07-06 17:48   ` Geoff Levand
2016-07-06  7:52 ` [PATCH v21 3/8] arm64: kdump: implement machine_crash_shutdown() AKASHI Takahiro
2016-07-06 17:28   ` Geoff Levand
2016-07-07  0:43     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2016-07-07 16:42       ` Geoff Levand
2016-07-06  7:52 ` [PATCH v21 4/8] arm64: kdump: add kdump support AKASHI Takahiro
2016-07-06 17:38   ` Geoff Levand
2016-07-07  0:49     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2016-07-06  7:52 ` [PATCH v21 5/8] arm64: kdump: add VMCOREINFO's for user-space coredump tools AKASHI Takahiro
2016-07-06  7:52 ` [PATCH v21 6/8] arm64: kdump: enable kdump in the arm64 defconfig AKASHI Takahiro
2016-07-06  7:52 ` [PATCH v21 7/8] arm64: kdump: update a kernel doc AKASHI Takahiro
2016-07-06 17:44   ` Geoff Levand
2016-07-07  0:51     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2016-07-06  7:52 ` [PATCH v21 8/8] Documentation: dt: usable-memory and elfcorehdr nodes for arm64 kexec AKASHI Takahiro
2016-07-06 17:46   ` Geoff Levand
2016-07-06 19:29   ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-07-07  2:00     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2016-07-07 18:46       ` Thiago Jung Bauermann

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