[PATCH v1 0/4][makedumpfile] vmalloc translation support for PPC32

[Atsushi Kumagai]

Hi, Suzuki

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:05:17 +0530
"Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki at in.ibm.com> wrote:

> The series introduces an infrastructure to define platform specific
> bits for page translation for PPC and PPC44x support for vmalloc
> translation.
> 
> This is similar to what we have implemented for Crash-utility.
> 
> The patches are based makedumpfile-1.4.2 + PPC32 support patches
> which is queued in for 1.4.3.
> 
> ---
> 
> Suzuki K. Poulose (4):
>       [makedumpfile][ppc] PPC44x page translation definitions
>       [makedumpfile][ppc] Define platform descriptors for page translation
>       [makedumpfile][ppc] Generic vmalloc translation support
>       [makedumpfile] Add read_string routine
> 
> 
>  arch/ppc.c     |  108 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  makedumpfile.c |   14 +++++++
>  makedumpfile.h |   21 +++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> Suzuki Poulose

Could you tell me what kind of data is stored in vmalloc region in PPC ?
I want to estimate importance of your patches for makedumpfile.

Thanks
Atsushi Kumagai