On 2014/1/22 20:56, Vaibhav Bedia wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > ARM's kdump is actually corrupted (at least for omap4460), mainly because of > cache problem: flush_icache_range can't reliably ensure the copied data > correctly goes into RAM. After mmu turned off and jump to the trampoline, kexec > always failed due to random undef instructions. > > This patch use ioremap to make sure the destnation of all memcpy() is > uncachable memory, including copying of target kernel and trampoline. > > > AFAIK ioremap on RAM in forbidden in ARM and device memory that ioremap() > ends up creating is not meant for executable code. > > Doesn't this trigger the WARN_ON() in _arm_ioremap_pfn_caller)? This patch is depend on the previous one: ARM: Premit ioremap() to map reserved pages However, Russell is opposed to it. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>