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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 03/15] powerpc, kexec_file: factor out memblock-based
 arch_kexec_walk_mem()
To:     Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
        AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
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From:   James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
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Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 17:52:03 +0100
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Hi Dave, Akashi,

On 16/07/18 13:26, Dave Young wrote:
> On 07/11/18 at 04:41pm, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
>> Memblock list is another source for usable system memory layout.
>> So powerpc's arch_kexec_walk_mem() is moved to kexec_file.c so that
>> other memblock-based architectures, particularly arm64, can also utilise
>> it. A moved function is now renamed to kexec_walk_memblock() and merged
>> into the existing arch_kexec_walk_mem() for general use, either resource
>> list or memblock list.
>>
>> A consequent function will not work for kdump with memblock list, but
>> this will be fixed in the next patch.
> 
> If this breaks something, then it would be good to fold the following
> patch in this patch so that bisect can still work?

This patch is just moving code from arch/powerpc that is generic.
powerpc doesn't support kdump via kexec_file, so nothing is damaged by adding
this new code in the next patch.

arm64 would need this kdump support, but it doesn't use it until patch 11.


Thanks,

James