Re: [RFC PATCH v6 0/4] powerpc/fadump: Improvements and fixes for firmware-assisted dump.

2018-07-19 Thread Michal Hocko
On Wed 18-07-18 21:52:17, Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar wrote: > On 07/17/2018 05:22 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Tue 17-07-18 16:58:10, Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar wrote: > >> On 07/16/2018 01:56 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > >>> On Mon 16-07-18 11:32:56, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote: > One of the p

Re: [RFC PATCH v6 0/4] powerpc/fadump: Improvements and fixes for firmware-assisted dump.

2018-07-18 Thread Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar
On 07/17/2018 05:22 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Tue 17-07-18 16:58:10, Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar wrote: >> On 07/16/2018 01:56 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: >>> On Mon 16-07-18 11:32:56, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote: One of the primary issues with Firmware Assisted Dump (fadump) on Power is tha

Re: [RFC PATCH v6 0/4] powerpc/fadump: Improvements and fixes for firmware-assisted dump.

2018-07-17 Thread Michal Hocko
On Tue 17-07-18 16:58:10, Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar wrote: > On 07/16/2018 01:56 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Mon 16-07-18 11:32:56, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote: > >> One of the primary issues with Firmware Assisted Dump (fadump) on Power > >> is that it needs a large amount of memory to be reser

Re: [RFC PATCH v6 0/4] powerpc/fadump: Improvements and fixes for firmware-assisted dump.

2018-07-17 Thread Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar
On 07/16/2018 01:56 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Mon 16-07-18 11:32:56, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote: >> One of the primary issues with Firmware Assisted Dump (fadump) on Power >> is that it needs a large amount of memory to be reserved. This reserved >> memory is used for saving the contents of old c

Re: [RFC PATCH v6 0/4] powerpc/fadump: Improvements and fixes for firmware-assisted dump.

2018-07-16 Thread Michal Hocko
On Mon 16-07-18 11:32:56, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote: > One of the primary issues with Firmware Assisted Dump (fadump) on Power > is that it needs a large amount of memory to be reserved. This reserved > memory is used for saving the contents of old crashed kernel's memory before > fadump capture ke

[RFC PATCH v6 0/4] powerpc/fadump: Improvements and fixes for firmware-assisted dump.

2018-07-15 Thread Mahesh J Salgaonkar
One of the primary issues with Firmware Assisted Dump (fadump) on Power is that it needs a large amount of memory to be reserved. This reserved memory is used for saving the contents of old crashed kernel's memory before fadump capture kernel uses old kernel's memory area to boot. However, This res