[PATCH] kexec: powerpc: crash_dump: No backup region for PPC BookE

McClintock Matthew-B29882 B29882 at freescale.com
Tue Oct 4 00:30:36 EDT 2011


On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Suzuki Poulose <suzuki at in.ibm.com> wrote:
>>> So there were two crash regions when we only needed the one specified
>>> on the command line?
>>>
>> Yes, and isn't that is expected ? The first kernel uses the memory region
>> (0-100M), (228M,256M). Where the 100-228M is reserved for crash kernel.
>
> The CRASH MEMORY RANGES denotes the memory ranges of the crashed kernel and
> usable memory regions denote the memory usable by the second kernel.

Right I agree, I don't remember there being two when I was looking at
this. Looks fine to me, but I have not looked at kexec on BookE in a
while.

-M



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