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