[PATCH] [ppc] Do not reserve cpu spin-table for crash kernel
Simon Horman
horms at verge.net.au
Fri Jul 13 02:33:10 EDT 2012
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:39:45AM +0530, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> As of now, the kexec reserves the spin-table for all the CPUs
> on an SMP machine. The spin-table is pointed to by the
> cpu-release-addr property in the device-tree. Reserving the
> spin-table in the crash kernel will cause a BUG(), if the table
> lies outside the memory reserved for the crashkernel.
>
> Disable reserving the spin-table regions and use maxcpus=1 to
> use only the crashing CPU to boot the crash kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki at in.ibm.com>
Thanks, applied.
Sorry for not seeing this (much) earlier.
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