From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fastboot@lists.osdl.org,
ak@suse.de, ebiederm@xmission.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/10] kdump: dynamic per cpu allocation of memory for saving cpu registers
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:07:55 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051118033755.GA3779@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051117140138.454c59a8.akpm@osdl.org>
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 02:01:38PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Please always generate diffs against the latest kernel! I changed the
> patch to reflect the new location of ppc64's machine_kexec.c.
>
Sorry. That's a mistake. I shall take care of it next time onwards.
> In that file, I notice that this comment has become more informative:
>
> /*
> * Provide a dummy crash_notes definition until crash dump is implemented.
> * This prevents breakage of crash_notes attribute in kernel/ksysfs.c.
> */
> note_buf_t crash_notes[NR_CPUS];
>
> Please check that with your new implementation, the above "breakage"
> (whatever it was) remains fixed.
>
With this patchset "crash_notes" has been moved in architecture independent
portion (). Hence there is no need for architecture dependent definitions.
So this change should be fine.
Thanks
Vivek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-18 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-17 13:13 [PATCH 0/10] Kdump Update i386/x86_64 Vivek Goyal
2005-11-17 13:18 ` [PATCH 1/10] kdump: i386 save ss esp bug fix Vivek Goyal
2005-11-17 13:20 ` [PATCH 2/10] kdump: dynamic per cpu allocation of memory for saving cpu registers Vivek Goyal
2005-11-17 13:21 ` [PATCH 3/10] kdump: export per cpu crash notes pointer through sysfs Vivek Goyal
2005-11-17 13:23 ` [PATCH 4/10] kdump: save registers early (inline functions) Vivek Goyal
2005-11-17 13:24 ` [PATCH 5/10] kdump: x86_64 add memmmap command line option Vivek Goyal
2005-11-17 13:25 ` [PATCH 6/10] kdump: x86_64 add elfcorehdr " Vivek Goyal
2005-11-17 13:26 ` [PATCH 7/10] kdump: x86_64 kexec on panic Vivek Goyal
2005-11-17 13:28 ` [PATCH 8/10] kdump: x86_64 save cpu registers upon crash Vivek Goyal
2005-11-17 13:29 ` [PATCH 9/10] kdump: read previous kernel's memory Vivek Goyal
2005-11-17 13:30 ` [PATCH 10/10] kexec: increase max segment limit Vivek Goyal
2005-11-17 22:20 ` [PATCH 9/10] kdump: read previous kernel's memory Andrew Morton
2005-11-17 23:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-11-23 14:04 ` [Fastboot] " Rachita Kothiyal
2005-11-18 0:47 ` [PATCH 8/10] kdump: x86_64 save cpu registers upon crash Haren Myneni
2005-11-18 21:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-11-19 4:35 ` Vivek Goyal
2005-11-17 22:07 ` [PATCH 3/10] kdump: export per cpu crash notes pointer through sysfs Andrew Morton
2005-11-18 12:33 ` Vivek Goyal
2005-11-17 22:01 ` [PATCH 2/10] kdump: dynamic per cpu allocation of memory for saving cpu registers Andrew Morton
2005-11-18 3:37 ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2005-11-18 12:32 ` Vivek Goyal
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