Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v11 03/15] powerpc, kexec_file: factor out memblock-based arch_kexec_walk_mem() | From | James Morse <> | Date | Wed, 18 Jul 2018 17:52:03 +0100 |
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Hi Dave, Akashi,
On 16/07/18 13:26, Dave Young wrote: > On 07/11/18 at 04:41pm, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: >> Memblock list is another source for usable system memory layout. >> So powerpc's arch_kexec_walk_mem() is moved to kexec_file.c so that >> other memblock-based architectures, particularly arm64, can also utilise >> it. A moved function is now renamed to kexec_walk_memblock() and merged >> into the existing arch_kexec_walk_mem() for general use, either resource >> list or memblock list. >> >> A consequent function will not work for kdump with memblock list, but >> this will be fixed in the next patch. > > If this breaks something, then it would be good to fold the following > patch in this patch so that bisect can still work?
This patch is just moving code from arch/powerpc that is generic. powerpc doesn't support kdump via kexec_file, so nothing is damaged by adding this new code in the next patch.
arm64 would need this kdump support, but it doesn't use it until patch 11.
Thanks,
James
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