Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758728Ab3GRKsF (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jul 2013 06:48:05 -0400 Received: from e06smtp14.uk.ibm.com ([195.75.94.110]:50212 "EHLO e06smtp14.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758469Ab3GRKsD (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jul 2013 06:48:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:47:54 +0200 From: Martin Schwidefsky To: Michael Holzheu Cc: Vivek Goyal , HATAYAMA Daisuke , Andrew Morton , Jan Willeke , Heiko Carstens , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] kdump: Allow ELF header creation in new kernel Message-ID: <20130718124754.7453756e@mschwide> In-Reply-To: <20130718124004.098b85f4@holzheu> References: <20130717180049.3b9c6ec8@holzheu> <20130717214207.GB27633@redhat.com> <20130718124004.098b85f4@holzheu> Organization: IBM Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: No X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13071810-1948-0000-0000-000005B7C5B5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1593 Lines: 52 On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:40:04 +0200 Michael Holzheu wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:42:07 -0400 > Vivek Goyal wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 06:00:49PM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote: > > [snip] > > > > But this is all additional effort now and would not be necessary if we > > > integrate this patch series in 3.11. > > > > > > Perhaps we should let Andrew decide here. > > > > Hi Michael, > > > > Given the fact that andrew too prefers a fix to get s390 working at this > > stage can we modify s390 copy_from_oldmem() to be able to copy to > > vmalloc() memory area. > > > > For mmap(), let us disable it on s390. And rest of the cleanups w.r.t > > ELF header swap etc, let us now target that for 3.12. > > > > Sounds reasonable? > > Hi Vivek, > > Ok this is not our preferred solution but we can't expect that life is > always easy ;-) > > Our s390 kernel maintainer Martin Schwidefsky agreed to send the following > two patches upstream for 3.11: > > * s390/kdump: Disable mmap for s390 > * s390/kdump: Allow copy_oldmem_page() copy to virtual memory Patches have been added to git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux.git features They will go upstream with my next pull request. -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/