[PATCH v21 8/8] Documentation: dt: usable-memory and elfcorehdr nodes for arm64 kexec
Thiago Jung Bauermann
bauerman at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Jul 6 12:29:18 PDT 2016
Hi,
Am Mittwoch, 06 Juli 2016, 16:52:26 schrieb AKASHI Takahiro:
> +linux,usable-memory
> +-------------------
> +
> +This property is set on PowerPC and arm64 by kexec-tools during kdump
> +to tell the crash kernel the base address of its reserved area of memory,
> and +the size. e.g.
> +
> +/ {
> + chosen {
> + linux,usable-memory = <0x9 0xf0000000 0x0 0x10000000>;
> + };
> +};
Again, this description is wrong for PowerPC. See messages from myself and
Michael Ellerman:
https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2016-June/016250.html
https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2016-June/016253.html
IMHO, it would be simpler if ARM used linux,usable-memory in the same way
that PowerPC does, for consistency.
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Thiago Jung Bauermann
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