Hi Anton,
Ignore my previous email. I am still getting caught up with your
patches.
On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 05:56 -0700, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> Suggested-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/ramoops.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ramoops.txt b/Documentation/ramoops.txt
> index 4ba7db2..138823b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ramoops.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/ramoops.txt
> @@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ corrupt, but usually it is restorable.
> Setting the ramoops parameters can be done in 2 different manners:
> 1. Use the module parameters (which have the names of the variables described
> as before).
> + For quick debugging, you can also reserve parts of memory during boot
> + and then use the reserved memory for ramoops. For example, assuming a machine
> + with > 128 MB of memory, the following kernel command line will tell the
> + kernel to use only the first 128 MB of memory, and place ECC-protected ramoops
> + region at 128 MB boundary:
> + "mem=128M ramoops.mem_address=0x8000000 ramoops.ecc=1"
> 2. Use a platform device and set the platform data. The parameters can then
> be set through that platform data. An example of doing that is:
Thanks much. This is great information to have. Exactly the detail I was
asking for.
>
> @@ -70,6 +76,15 @@ if (ret) {
> return ret;
> }
>
> +You can specify either RAM memory or peripheral devices' memory. However, when
> +specifying RAM, be sure to reserve the memory by issuing memblock_reserve()
> +very early in the architecture code, just before platform device registration,
> +e.g.:
> +
> +#include <linux/memblock.h>
> +
> +memblock_reserve(ramoops_data.mem_address, ramoops_data.mem_size);
Same here. :)
-- Shuah
> +
> 3. Dump format
>
> The data dump begins with a header, currently defined as "====" followed by a
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