[PATCH v2 0/8] Initial implementation of kdump for ARM

Per Fransson per.xx.fransson at stericsson.com
Mon Jul 5 11:37:11 EDT 2010


On 07/05/2010 04:19 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 04:05:56PM +0200, Per Fransson wrote:
>> Well, I had another suggestion in my last mail.
> 
> Which is going to need per-CPU type support in order to achieve.  Do
> we really want to implement relocate_new_kernel for each of the 24
> CPU types which we currently support?
> 

Perhaps not. Couldn't the variable delay be macrofied then, i.e. a macro like

MMU_DISABLED_DELAY_AND_EXEC(<asm instr>)

which would do nothing for an appropriate amount of time and put the instruction in the last MMU mapped slot?


Regards,
Per



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