On 02/17/2012 06:02 AM, Atsushi Kumagai wrote: > 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. I know at least the modules are loaded in the vmalloc'd region. I have Cc'ed linux-ppc dev. We should be able to get enough info from the experts here. Josh / Kumar / Others, Could you please let us know your thoughts ? Thanks Suzuki
