linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: ipq5018: add few more reserved memory regions

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Date:   Thu,  7 Dec 2023 18:57:47 -0800
From:   Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>
To:     Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
        Kathiravan Thirumoorthy <quic_kathirav@...cinc.com>
Cc:     linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: ipq5018: add few more reserved memory regions


On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 22:12:12 +0530, Kathiravan Thirumoorthy wrote:
> Like all other IPQ SoCs, bootloader will collect the system RAM contents
> upon crash for the post morterm analysis. If we don't reserve the memory
> region used by bootloader, obviously linux will consume it and upon next
> boot on crash, bootloader will be loaded in the same region, which will
> lead to loose some of the data, sometimes we may miss out critical
> information. So lets reserve the region used by the bootloader.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] arm64: dts: qcom: ipq5018: add few more reserved memory regions
      commit: a427dd16e61f3d145bc24f0ed09692fc25931250

Best regards,
-- 
Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>