[PATCH 10/12] kexec: arrange for paddr_vmcoreinfo_note() to return phys_addr_t

Baoquan He bhe at redhat.com
Tue May 3 05:56:49 PDT 2016


On 05/03/16 at 11:12am, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 12:24:41PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > Could you please help tell why arm PAE kernel can be put above 4G?
> > Since the change is related to common code, I am curious about how
> > it's so different with other ARCHs.
> 
> This is explained in the covering email to the series.
> 
> The explanation given by Pratyush was incomplete.

Yeah, he said non LPAE also has PHYS_OFFSET later to me. In fact this
patch is totally unharmful to other ARCHes, I just can't stand the
curiosity. Sorry about this.

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