linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kdump: Define KEXEC_NOTE

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Message-ID: <20120111204539.GB23752@verge.net.au>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:45:39 +0900
From:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To:	Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdump: Define KEXEC_NOTE_BYTES arch specific for s390x

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:30:12PM +0100, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> kdump only allocates memory for the prstatus ELF note. For s390x,
> besides of prstatus multiple ELF notes for various different register
> types are stored. Therefore the currently allocated memory is not
> sufficient. With this patch the KEXEC_NOTE_BYTES macro can be
> defined by architecture code and for s390x it is set to the correct
> size now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

This seems reasonable to me.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
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