+ arm-kdump-advertise-boot-aliased-crash-kernel-resource.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: ARM: kdump: advertise boot aliased crash kernel resource
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     arm-kdump-advertise-boot-aliased-crash-kernel-resource.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/arm-kdump-advertise-boot-aliased-crash-kernel-resource.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/arm-kdump-advertise-boot-aliased-crash-kernel-resource.patch

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From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: ARM: kdump: advertise boot aliased crash kernel resource

Advertise a resource which describes where the crash kernel is located in
the boot view of RAM.  This allows kexec-tools to have this vital
information.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/E1b8knz-0004H4-Bd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Keerthy <j-keerthy@xxxxxx>
Cc: Pratyush Anand <panand@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vitaly Andrianov <vitalya@xxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 arch/arm/kernel/setup.c |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff -puN arch/arm/kernel/setup.c~arm-kdump-advertise-boot-aliased-crash-kernel-resource arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c~arm-kdump-advertise-boot-aliased-crash-kernel-resource
+++ a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
@@ -1006,9 +1006,25 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(v
 		(unsigned long)(crash_base >> 20),
 		(unsigned long)(total_mem >> 20));
 
+	/* The crashk resource must always be located in normal mem */
 	crashk_res.start = crash_base;
 	crashk_res.end = crash_base + crash_size - 1;
 	insert_resource(&iomem_resource, &crashk_res);
+
+	if (arm_has_idmap_alias()) {
+		/*
+		 * If we have a special RAM alias for use at boot, we
+		 * need to advertise to kexec tools where the alias is.
+		 */
+		static struct resource crashk_boot_res = {
+			.name = "Crash kernel (boot alias)",
+			.flags = IORESOURCE_BUSY | IORESOURCE_MEM,
+		};
+
+		crashk_boot_res.start = phys_to_idmap(crash_base);
+		crashk_boot_res.end = crashk_boot_res.start + crash_size - 1;
+		insert_resource(&iomem_resource, &crashk_boot_res);
+	}
 }
 #else
 static inline void reserve_crashkernel(void) {}
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are

arm-kdump-advertise-boot-aliased-crash-kernel-resource.patch
arm-kexec-advertise-location-of-bootable-ram.patch
kexec-dont-invoke-oom-killer-for-control-page-allocation.patch
kexec-ensure-user-memory-sizes-do-not-wrap.patch
kdump-arrange-for-paddr_vmcoreinfo_note-to-return-phys_addr_t.patch
kexec-allow-architectures-to-override-boot-mapping.patch
arm-kexec-fix-kexec-for-keystone-2.patch

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