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

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Feb 17 03:39:29 EST 2012


On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 11:25 +0530, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> > 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.
> I know at least the modules are loaded in the vmalloc'd region. I have
> Cc'ed linux-ppc dev. We should be able to get enough info from the
> experts here.
> 
> Josh / Kumar / Others,
> 
> Could you please let us know your thoughts ?

Modules, driver IO mappings, etc... I can see that being useful for
crashdumps.

Cheers,
Ben.





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