visible memory seems wrong in kexec crash dump kernel
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sun Jul 14 19:11:27 EDT 2013
On Sun, 2013-07-14 at 17:08 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> > So for memory starting at 0 it should be memory at 0
>
> There are a fair number of dts files in the kernel tree that don't
> specify an address for the memory node.
>
> If the kernel accepts it without an address, it seems logical that kexec
> should as well.
As long as kexec doesn't start being stupid when there are several nodes
and doesn't pick up the "first one in device-tree order" instead of the
one at 0...
I've been hit by that sort of bugs before (though not specifically in
kexec).
> Or maybe the kernel should just implicitly assume an address of zero and
> export it as such in /proc/device-tree?
I don't want /proc/device-tree to expose something different than what's in
the actual device-tree, that would be the source for endless horrors.
We already are borderline with the occasional renaming we do in the case of
duplicate name+property...
Cheers,
Ben.
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