> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Takao Indoh > Sent: 2006年9月6日 17:23 > To: Keith Owens > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PATCH]IA64 kexec/kdump patch for INIT > > On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:06:53 +0900, Takao Indoh wrote: > > >>>+ /* change region of gp to region5 */ > >>>+ asm volatile ("movl gp=__gp"::: "memory"); > >> > >>Why? gp is already pointing at the kernel code before we enter > >>ia64_init_handler(). > > > >The purpose of this code is just changing region of gp from region7 to > >region5. For example, if gp is e000000004ace170, I want to change gp to > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~e000000000ace170 > Sorry, I mistook address... > > > Regards, > Takao Indoh > You don't need to set gp here. Control page does not use GP, and purgatory code will set GP to a physical address which was pre-calculated at the time of crash kernel loading. Thanks Zou Nan hai > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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