[PATCH v3 0/2] PPC64: Add virtual to physical address translation support for vmalloc region

Atsushi Kumagai kumagai-atsushi at mxc.nes.nec.co.jp
Wed Aug 13 03:29:37 PDT 2014


>In makedumpfile tool, currently there is no support for virtual to physical
>address translation of vmalloc region  on PPC64 architecture. These patches
>add this support.  The patches have been tested by  erasing data in vmalloc
>region, verfying for eraseinfo in the resultant ELF dump and verifiying the
>resultant ELF dump for sanity using crash utility. Also, tested the patches
>successfully with eppic scripts.
>
>Changes in v3:
>Added the buffer to read page tables in DumpInfo structure and freeing it
>before exiting the tool

Thanks Hari, I'll merge this version into v1.5.7.


Atsushi Kumagai

>---
>
>Hari Bathini (2):
>      makedumpfile: Initialize for vmalloc address translation support in PPC64 arch
>      makedumpfile: vtop address translation support for vmalloc region in PPC64 arch
>
>
> arch/ppc64.c   |  170 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> makedumpfile.c |    9 +++
> makedumpfile.h |   83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 249 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
>--
>- Hari


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