On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:28:22PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:22:48AM +1000, Simon Horman wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 03:47:41PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > How does following series of patches look like. I have moved > > > > elfcorehdr_addr out of vmcore.c and pushed it to arch dependent section > > > > of crash dump to make sure that it can be worked with even when > > > > CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE is disabled and CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is enabled. > > > > > > > > I tested it on x86_64. Compile tested it on i386 and ppc64. ia64 and > > > > sh versions are completely untested. > > > > > > Given the current state of the code: > > > Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > To process a kernel crash dump we pass the kernel elfcorehdr option, > > > so testing to see if it was passed seems reasonable. > > > > > > In general I think this method of handling the problems with kdump is > > > too brittle to live, but in the case of iommus we certainly need to do > > > something different, and unfortunately iommus were not common on x86 > > > when the original code was merged so we have not handled them well. > > > > Agreed, however these patches look like they really ought to be merged > > into a single patch for the sake of bisect. As things stand, applying > > the first patch will break the build on each architecture with an > > architecture specific until the latter is applied. > > That's a good point. I was not very sure because changes were in > different arches and I broke the patch. At the same time changes are > really miniscule in each arch. I guessed that was why you split them up. But really the per-arch change is very small. > So, for the sake of not breaking compilation for git-bisect, I will > generate a single patch tomorrow. (Until and unless somebody has an > objection). For combiled patch: Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Horms -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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