Re: [PATCH 06/12] ARM: kexec: advertise location of bootable RAM

[Pratyush Anand <panand@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Russell,

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Russell King
<rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Advertise the location of bootable RAM to kexec-tools.  kexec needs to
> know where it can place the kernel in RAM, and so be executable when
> the system needs to jump into it.
>
> Advertise these areas in /proc/iomem with a "System RAM (boot alias)"
> tag.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Can you please also share git tree path of corresponding kexec-tools changes?

Could it be a better idea (if things in user space become simpler)
that in stead of patch 5 and 6, we pass arch_phys_to_idmap_offset to
user space, and then user space manipulates existing "Crash kernel"
and "System RAM" resources.

~Pratyush
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