linux-kernel - Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] SLUB doesn't work with kdump kernel on Cell

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Date:	Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:43:33 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	cbe-oss-dev@...abs.org
Cc:	"Michael Ellerman" <michael@...erman.id.au>, ljhc@...ibm.com,
	Arnd Bergmann <arndb@...db.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] SLUB doesn't work with kdump kernel on Cell

On Friday 10 August 2007, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> It comes out of the device tree, just like a regular kernel. The
> device tree for the kdump kernel is built by kexec-tools, it parses
> /proc/device-tree and does a bunch of logic to avoid various reserved
> regions: the kernel, TCE tables, RTAS etc.

Maybe it should then try to flatten out the NUMA properties and put
all pages logically into the same node that the boot CPU resides on.
I can see a number of things going wrong otherwise.

	Arnd <><
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