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. Regards -Sachin -- --------------------------------- Sachin Sant IBM Linux Technology Center India Systems and Technology Labs Bangalore, India ---------------------------------
