[PATCH v2 0/2] makedumpfile: few ARM fixes

Masayuki Igawa igawa at mxs.nes.nec.co.jp
Mon Nov 8 21:51:39 EST 2010


Hi,

Thank you for your patches. I've merged and pushed.

Regards,
Masayuki Igawa


On Mon,  8 Nov 2010 09:59:26 +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> While using makedumpfile on ARM I found few issues from the current
> implementation. Basically the current implementation only works on
> 3G/1G VM split but not others.
> 
> These patches should make makedumpfile on ARM to work on other VM
> split values as well. I've tested with 1G/3G, 2G/2G, 3G/1G, and
> VMSPLIT_3G_OPT (2.7G/1.3G).
> 
> Changes to previous version:
> 	- removed any references to vmalloc_start as per review comments
> 
> This version still allows users to use '--vtop' option to perform V->P
> translations via page tables.
> 
> Regards,
> MW
> 
> Mika Westerberg (2):
>   ARM: determine PAGE_OFFSET from _stext
>   ARM: don't depend on vmalloc_start
> 
>  arm.c          |   50 +++++++++-----------------------------------------
>  makedumpfile.h |    1 -
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
> 




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