On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:59:28PM +1100, Simon Horman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 04:08:13PM +0530, Sachin P. Sant wrote: > > Chandru wrote: > >> /proc/device-tree on power6 machines has > >> ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory node which stores in it the memory > >> representation for most part of the system memory. This memory was > >> earlier represented in 'memory@' nodes of the device tree. Following > >> patch series makes kexec-tools aware of this dynamic reconfiguration > >> memory node. These patches were sent earlier for RFC. In addition to > >> this, a change in the kernel was also required. The kernel change has > >> been accepted in powerpc git tree. > >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git;a=commit;h=cf00085d8045cddd80a8aabad97de96fa8131793 > >> Some part of the patch here is re-organization of the existing code to > >> accommodate dynamic reconf memory. > >> > >> > > I tested this patch series on a ppc64 box and they work fine. > > Without these patches i get a zero size vmcore on a power(power6) > > box which has support for dynamic-reconfiguration-memory. > > > > Horms could you please consider this patch series and merge them > > if found suitable. > > Thanks for your review, it is most helpful. > > Sorry to all for being a little slow with this. > Apart from some very minor nits about patch ordering > that I emailed about just now, I am also fine with this series. After some further discussion with Chandru I have applied this series as is. Thanks to all involved. -- Simon Horman VA Linux Systems Japan K.K., Sydney, Australia Satellite Office H: www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: www.valinux.co.jp/en
