> -----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
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