Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] crash_core, vmcoreinfo: Append 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' to vmcoreinfo

From: Dave Young
Date: Thu Jul 02 2020 - 08:09:27 EST


Hi Catalin,
On 07/02/20 at 12:00pm, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 12:22:36AM +0530, Bhupesh Sharma wrote:
> > diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
> > index 9f1557b98468..18175687133a 100644
> > --- a/kernel/crash_core.c
> > +++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
> > @@ -413,6 +413,7 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init(void)
> > VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(mem_section, NR_SECTION_ROOTS);
> > VMCOREINFO_STRUCT_SIZE(mem_section);
> > VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(mem_section, section_mem_map);
> > + VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS);
> > #endif
> > VMCOREINFO_STRUCT_SIZE(page);
> > VMCOREINFO_STRUCT_SIZE(pglist_data);
>
> I can queue this patch via the arm64 tree (together with the second one)
> but I'd like an ack from the kernel/crash_core.c maintainers. They don't
> seem to have been cc'ed either (only the kexec list).

For the VMCOREINFO part, I'm fine with the changes, but since I do not
understand the arm64 pieces so I would like to leave to arm64 people to
review. If arm64 bits are good enough, feel free to add:

Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks
Dave