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| author | Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-03-16 22:05:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> | 2017-03-31 13:34:37 +0200 |
| commit | bc183779dedf969533f19cc957a4a02b69fc44d3 (patch) | |
| tree | bd887618bfb706ff68d9ceb3c95e0938fee2a9ca /Documentation/powerpc | |
| parent | powerpc/fadump: Reserve memory at an offset closer to bottom of RAM (diff) | |
| download | linux-bc183779dedf969533f19cc957a4a02b69fc44d3.tar.xz linux-bc183779dedf969533f19cc957a4a02b69fc44d3.zip | |
powerpc/fadump: Update fadump documentation
With the unnecessary restriction to reserve memory for fadump at the
top of RAM forgone, update the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/powerpc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt | 34 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt index 3007bc98af28..19b1e3d09a19 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt @@ -105,21 +105,21 @@ memory is held. If there is no waiting dump data, then only the memory required to hold CPU state, HPTE region, boot memory dump and elfcore -header, is reserved at the top of memory (see Fig. 1). This area -is *not* released: this region will be kept permanently reserved, -so that it can act as a receptacle for a copy of the boot memory -content in addition to CPU state and HPTE region, in the case a -crash does occur. +header, is usually reserved at an offset greater than boot memory +size (see Fig. 1). This area is *not* released: this region will +be kept permanently reserved, so that it can act as a receptacle +for a copy of the boot memory content in addition to CPU state +and HPTE region, in the case a crash does occur. o Memory Reservation during first kernel - Low memory Top of memory + Low memory Top of memory 0 boot memory size | - | | |<--Reserved dump area -->| - V V | Permanent Reservation V - +-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+ - | | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |ELF | - +-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+ + | | |<--Reserved dump area -->| | + V V | Permanent Reservation | V + +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+-----------+----+------+ + | | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |ELF | | + +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+-----------+----+------+ | ^ | | \ / @@ -135,12 +135,12 @@ crash does occur. 0 boot memory size | | |<------------- Reserved dump area ----------- -->| V V V - +-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+ - | | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |ELF | - +-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+ - | | - V V - Used by second /proc/vmcore + +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+-----------+----+------+ + | | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |ELF | | + +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+-----------+----+------+ + | | + V V + Used by second /proc/vmcore kernel to boot Fig. 2 |