[PATCH v21 2/8] arm64: limit memory regions based on DT property, usable-memory

Geoff Levand geoff at infradead.org
Wed Jul 6 10:48:59 PDT 2016


On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 16:52 +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> Crash dump kernel will be run with a limited range of memory as System
> RAM.
> 
> On arm64, we will use a device-tree property under /chosen,
>    linux,usable-memory = 
> in order for primary kernel either on uefi or non-uefi (device tree only)
> system to hand over the information about usable memory region to crash
> dump kernel. This property will supercede entries in uefi memory map table
> and "memory" nodes in a device tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>

This all looks OK.

Reviewed-by: Geoff Levand <geoff at infradead.org>



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