[PATCH] sh: Add vmlinux crash dump support
Paul Mundt
lethal at linux-sh.org
Thu Sep 4 05:30:40 EDT 2008
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:03:14PM +1000, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:38:11PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> > From: Magnus Damm <damm at igel.co.jp>
> >
> > This patch adds SuperH crash dump support. The vmlinux loader is modified
> > with crash dump hooks as on other architectures. SuperH does not need any
> > backup region, so only the elf header is allocated from the top of the
> > reserved memory window. The actual size of the memory window is passed
> > to the secondary kernel on the command line using "mem=".
> >
> > The secondary kernel must be configured to match the reserved memory
> > window, change kernel parameters CONFIG_MEMORY_START and CONFIG_MEMORY_SIZE.
> >
> > Linux-2.6.27 should be usable as primary kernel on SuperH, later kernel
> > versions are needed to fully support secondary kernel /proc/vmcore.
>
> Hi Magnus,
>
> this looks ok to me. Has Paul or someone else reviewed it?
>
I have now, looks good to me.
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal at linux-sh.org>
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