[PATCH v5 6/7] ath10k: save firmware RAM and ROM BSS sections on crash

Kalle Valo kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Sat Aug 9 10:31:22 PDT 2014


Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> writes:

>> Third option is that we allocate crash dump buffers after the firmware
>> has been loaded and FW IEs are read. That way we don't allocate any
>> extra memory but the fundamental problem still persists.
>
> I'd prefer this third option..seems more elegant all around.
>
> I don't think you can do vmalloc in atomic context, btw.  But, can do it
> on firmware load.

Ok, I'll look how to implement this.

-- 
Kalle Valo



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