Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752146Ab2BTADb (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:03:31 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:51333 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751994Ab2BTAD3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:03:29 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:47:51 +1100 From: Paul Mackerras To: Mahesh J Salgaonkar Cc: linuxppc-dev , Linux Kernel , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Amerigo Wang , Kexec-ml , Milton Miller , Haren Myneni , Randy Dunlap , "Eric W. Biederman" , Ananth Narayan , Vivek Goyal , Anton Blanchard Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v7 00/10] fadump: Firmware-assisted dump support for Powerpc. Message-ID: <20120219234751.GA10186@bloggs.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <20120216111050.4733.38034.stgit@mars> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120216111050.4733.38034.stgit@mars> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 958 Lines: 23 On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:44:06PM +0530, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote: > Please find the version 7 of the patchset that implements firmware-assisted > dump mechanism to capture kernel crash dump for Powerpc architecture. > Firmware-assisted dump is a robust mechanism to get reliable kernel crash > dump with the assistance of firmware. This approach does not use kexec, > instead firmware assists in booting the kdump kernel while preserving memory > contents. For the series: Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras I think it's pretty much good enough to go in now. I have one relatively minor comment about a printk which could be addressed if you decide to do another version of the series. Paul. -- 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/