Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] powerpc/fadump: Move the metadata region to start of the reserved area.

2018-04-04 Thread Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar
On 04/04/2018 12:56 AM, Hari Bathini wrote: > Mahesh, I think we should explicitly document that production and > capture kernel > versions should be same. For changes like below, older/newer production > kernel vs > capture kernel is bound to fail. Of course, production and capture > kernel versio

Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] powerpc/fadump: Move the metadata region to start of the reserved area.

2018-04-03 Thread Hari Bathini
Mahesh, I think we should explicitly document that production and capture kernel versions should be same. For changes like below, older/newer production kernel vs capture kernel is bound to fail. Of course, production and capture kernel versions would be the same case usually but for the uniniti

[PATCH v3 1/7] powerpc/fadump: Move the metadata region to start of the reserved area.

2018-04-01 Thread Mahesh J Salgaonkar
From: Mahesh Salgaonkar Currently the metadata region that holds crash info structure and ELF core header is placed towards the end of reserved memory area. This patch places it at the beginning of the reserved memory area. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/fadump.h