linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v7 00/10] fadump: Firmware-assisted dump support for Powerpc.

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Message-ID: <20120219234751.GA10186@bloggs.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:47:51 +1100
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>,
	Kexec-ml <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>,
	Haren Myneni <hbabu@...ibm.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Ananth Narayan <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v7 00/10] fadump: Firmware-assisted dump support for
 Powerpc.

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 <paulus@...ba.org>

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.
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