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From: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>
Subject: Re: [v2,
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On Thu, 2017-03-16 at 21:05:26 UTC, Hari Bathini wrote:
> Currently, the area to preserve boot memory is reserved at the top of
> RAM. This leaves fadump vulnerable to memory hot-remove operations. As
> memory for fadump has to be reserved early in the boot process, fadump
> can't be registered after a memory hot-remove operation. Though this
> problem can't be eleminated completely, the impact can be minimized by
> reserving memory at an offset closer to bottom of the RAM. The offset
> for fadump memory reservation can be any value greater than fadump boot
> memory size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Series applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/f6e6bedb773118713a8eb3736a4c99

cheers