[RESEND PATCH 0/8] makedumpfile: Add support to understand Power ISA 3.0 based kernel

Atsushi Kumagai ats-kumagai at wm.jp.nec.com
Thu Oct 6 02:08:03 PDT 2016


Hello Hari,

>SA 3.0 based kernel
>
>With the introduction of radix MMU in Power ISA 3.0, there are changes
>in kernel page table management accommodating that. This patch series
>makes appropriate changes here to work for such kernels. This series
>enables address translation support for radix MMU and also, fixes a
>few bugs along the way.
>
>Resending the patches:
>* by adding makedumpfile in subject to set this in context
>* adding right mail id of Atsushi Kumagai
>
>---
>
>Hari Bathini (8):
>      ppc64: fix vtop page translation for 4K pages
>      ppc64: Use kernel terminology for each level in 4-level page table
>      ppc64: address changes in kernel v4.5
>      ppc64: address change in _PAGE_PRESNT flag for PowerISA v3.0
>      ppc64: use physical addresses and unfold pud for 64K page size
>      ppc64: support big endian Linux page tables
>      ppc64: use the same masked bit values for 4K and 64K pagesizes
>      ppc64: enable address translation support for radix mmu

I've reviewed them and they look good to me.
I'll merge them into v1.6.1, thanks for your work.

Regards,
Atsushi Kumagai

>
> arch/ppc64.c   |  231 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> makedumpfile.c |   11 +++
> makedumpfile.h |  107 +++++++++++++++++---------
> 3 files changed, 280 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)



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