[Crash-utility] [PATCH v4 0/4] vmalloc translation support for PPC

[Dave Anderson]

----- Original Message -----
> The following series implements :
> 
>  * An infrastructure for platform based vmalloc translation for PPC32
>  * vmalloc translation support for PPC44x
> 
> Changes since V3:
> 
>  * Use platform specific 'page flags'
>  * Avoid calling dump_mem_map() by checking if there is a page
>  associated
>    with the physical memory. (Suggested by: Dave)
> 
> Changes since V2:
> 
>  * Rebased to crash-6.0.3
>  * Maintains a list of probe functions, rather than platform
>    definitions.
> 
> 
> Each platform can define their own probe_function which would get the name of the
> ppc platform (read from kernel) and the probe can check if it is one of its variant.
> The probe function can then update the 'platform' defintions for the virtual address
> translation.
> 
> If none of the defined platforms match, we fall back to using the default PPC32
> definitions.

Hi Suzuki,

With the updated patch #2 addressing Toshi's concerns, the patch-set looks
and tests OK -- for me anyway. 

One thing I will add is the translation of the PAE and CPU_BOOKE flag bits
in ppc_dump_machdep_table(), so that you'll see:

  crash> help -m
             platform: ppc440gp
                flags: 808001 (KSYMS_START|PAE|CPU_BOOKE)
               kvbase: c0000000
    identity_map_base: c0000000
  ...

Presuming that Toshi is OK with the updated patch #2, consider the patch-set
queued for crash-6.0.4.

Thanks for all your work,
  Dave