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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Cc: linux ppc dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/4][makedumpfile] vmalloc translation support for PPC32
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:39:29 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1329467969.2892.58.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F3DEBCF.8000201@in.ibm.com>

On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 11:25 +0530, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> > Could you tell me what kind of data is stored in vmalloc region in
> PPC ?
> > I want to estimate importance of your patches for makedumpfile.
> I know at least the modules are loaded in the vmalloc'd region. I have
> Cc'ed linux-ppc dev. We should be able to get enough info from the
> experts here.
> 
> Josh / Kumar / Others,
> 
> Could you please let us know your thoughts ?

Modules, driver IO mappings, etc... I can see that being useful for
crashdumps.

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-17  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20120216033411.7972.77705.stgit@suzukikp>
     [not found] ` <20120217093220.0c2993a1.kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
2012-02-17  5:55   ` [PATCH v1 0/4][makedumpfile] vmalloc translation support for PPC32 Suzuki K. Poulose
2012-02-17  8:39     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2012-02-20  9:56       ` Atsushi Kumagai
2012-02-20 10:31         ` Suzuki K. Poulose

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