Re: using crash for ARM

[paawan oza <paawan1982@xxxxxxxxx>]

I shall provide at the earliest.
Thanks for your response.

Regards,
Oza.

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From: Dave Anderson <anderson@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: paawan oza <paawan1982@xxxxxxxxx>; "Discussion list for crash utility usage, maintenance and development" <crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Fänge <thomas.fange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Rabin Vincent <rabin@xxxxxx>; Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxx>; jan karlsson <jan.karlsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, 4 October 2012 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: using crash for ARM

----- Original Message -----

> > Paawan, your fix looks sane to me but can you add a small comment describing
> > why this is done?
> >
>
> ok,
> Let us wait for Dave and others to comment on it, and try to see how
> this could be pushed.
>
> Regards,
> Oza.

Oza,

Can you please append your actual patch as Rabin has done?  The only
thing that I have from you is this pseudo-code description:

> then I have to do workaround for section level physical addresses as
> follows.
> page_dir = pgd + PGD_OFFSET(vaddr) * 2;
> if (bit(vaddr,20)) //if bit is set then move to the next pgd */
> page_dir = page_dir + 1;
> FILL_PGD(PAGEBASE(pgd), KVADDR, PGDIR_SIZE());
> pgd_pte = ULONG(machdep->pgd + PGDIR_OFFSET(page_dir));
>

Then Mika can decide on how to proceed with the two patches.

Dave

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