Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 06/10] fadump: Add PT_NOTE program header for vmcoreinfo

From: Cong Wang <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:11:58 +0800

于 2011年11月07日 17:56, Mahesh J Salgaonkar 写道:
> From: Mahesh Salgaonkar<[email-masked]>
>
> Introduce a PT_NOTE program header that points to physical address of
> vmcoreinfo_note buffer declared in kernel/kexec.c. The vmcoreinfo
> note buffer is populated during crash_fadump() at the time of system
> crash.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar<[email-masked]>
> ---
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> index 70d6287..e68ee3a 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> @@ -816,6 +816,19 @@ static void setup_crash_memory_ranges(void)
>   	}
>   }
>
> +/*
> + * If the given physical address falls within the boot memory region then
> + * return the relocated address that points to the dump region reserved
> + * for saving initial boot memory contents.
> + */
> +static inline unsigned long relocate(unsigned long paddr)
> +{
> +	if (paddr>  RMR_START&&  paddr<  fw_dump.boot_memory_size)
> +		return fdm.rmr_region.destination_address + paddr;
> +	else
> +		return paddr;
> +}

Although they are static functions, it is still better to name them
with "fadump_" prefix...

Thanks.