[PATCH 0/3] kdump: add support for ibm, dynamic-reconfiguration-memory for kexec/kdump

[Sachin P. Sant]

Chandru wrote:
> /proc/device-tree on power6 machines has ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory 
> node which stores in it the memory representation for most part of the system 
> memory. This memory was earlier represented in 'memory@' nodes of the device 
> tree.  Following patch series makes kexec-tools aware of this dynamic 
> reconfiguration memory node. These patches were sent earlier for RFC. In 
> addition to this, a change in the kernel was also required. The kernel change 
> has been accepted in powerpc git tree. 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git;a=commit;h=cf00085d8045cddd80a8aabad97de96fa8131793
> Some part of the patch here is re-organization of the existing code to 
> accommodate dynamic reconf memory. 
>
>   
I tested this patch series on a ppc64 box and they work fine.
Without these patches i get a zero size vmcore on a power(power6)
box which has support for dynamic-reconfiguration-memory.

Horms could you please consider this patch series and merge them
if found suitable.

Regards
-Sachin


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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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