[PATCH v1 1/4] kexec: (bugfix) calc correct end address of memory ranges in device tree

AKASHI Takahiro takahiro.akashi at linaro.org
Sun Jul 31 21:52:41 PDT 2016


On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 06:23:56PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 10:12:26AM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > On Fri, 2016-07-29 at 09:27 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > 
> > > So, these functions are a mess and need fixing.
> > 
> > Since this change isn't really related to arm64 support, I'll
> > drop this patch from my series.
> 
> Do you have a case which triggers bugs in this code?

Actually, this patch was necessary when my kdump used "usable-memory"
properties in "memory" nodes, as on ppc64, to limit the usable memory
regions that can be used by crash dump kernel.
Since then, I've moved to the approach of using "mem=" kernel parameter,
then introducing a new property, "linux,usable-memory-range," under /chosen
and now we don't need this patch any more.

So, we can drop it but I still believe that it is buggy.

Thanks,
-Takahiro AKASHI

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