Hi, Suzuki On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:05:17 +0530 "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki at in.ibm.com> wrote: > The series introduces an infrastructure to define platform specific > bits for page translation for PPC and PPC44x support for vmalloc > translation. > > This is similar to what we have implemented for Crash-utility. > > The patches are based makedumpfile-1.4.2 + PPC32 support patches > which is queued in for 1.4.3. > > --- > > Suzuki K. Poulose (4): > [makedumpfile][ppc] PPC44x page translation definitions > [makedumpfile][ppc] Define platform descriptors for page translation > [makedumpfile][ppc] Generic vmalloc translation support > [makedumpfile] Add read_string routine > > > arch/ppc.c | 108 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- > makedumpfile.c | 14 +++++++ > makedumpfile.h | 21 +++++++++++ > 3 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > -- > Suzuki Poulose Could you tell me what kind of data is stored in vmalloc region in PPC ? I want to estimate importance of your patches for makedumpfile. Thanks Atsushi Kumagai
