From: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
Kexec-ml <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>,
Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>,
Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] vmcore: remove dependency with is_kdump_kernel() for exporting vmcore
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:30:00 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <169528860033.876432.15480467889695445457.b4-ty@ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230912082950.856977-1-hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
On Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:59:49 +0530, Hari Bathini wrote:
> Currently, is_kdump_kernel() returns true when elfcorehdr_addr is set.
> While elfcorehdr_addr is set for kexec based kernel dump mechanism,
> alternate dump capturing methods like fadump [1] also set it to export
> the vmcore. Since, is_kdump_kernel() is used to restrict resources in
> crash dump capture kernel and such restrictions may not be desirable
> for fadump, allow is_kdump_kernel() to be defined differently for such
> scenarios. With this, is_kdump_kernel() could be false while vmcore is
> usable. So, remove unnecessary dependency with is_kdump_kernel(), for
> exporting vmcore.
>
> [...]
Applied to powerpc/next.
[1/2] vmcore: remove dependency with is_kdump_kernel() for exporting vmcore
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/86328b338c3996b814417dd68e3f899a1a649059
[2/2] powerpc/fadump: make is_kdump_kernel() return false when fadump is active
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/b098f1c32365304633077d73e4ae21c72d4241b3
cheers
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-21 9:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-12 8:29 [PATCH v3 1/2] vmcore: remove dependency with is_kdump_kernel() for exporting vmcore Hari Bathini
2023-09-12 8:29 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] powerpc/fadump: make is_kdump_kernel() return false when fadump is active Hari Bathini
2023-09-14 4:41 ` Baoquan He
2023-09-14 4:40 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] vmcore: remove dependency with is_kdump_kernel() for exporting vmcore Baoquan He
2023-09-21 9:30 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
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