[Crash-utility] using crash for ARM

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Thu Oct 4 13:00:45 UTC 2012



----- Original Message -----

> > Paawan, your fix looks sane to me but can you add a small comment describing
> > why this is done?
> >
> 
> ok,
> Let us wait for Dave and others to comment on it, and try to see how
> this could be pushed.
> 
> Regards,
> Oza.

Oza, 

Can you please append your actual patch as Rabin has done?  The only
thing that I have from you is this pseudo-code description:

> then I have to do workaround for section level physical addresses as
> follows.
> page_dir = pgd + PGD_OFFSET(vaddr) * 2;
> if (bit(vaddr,20)) //if bit is set then move to the next pgd */
> page_dir = page_dir + 1;
> FILL_PGD(PAGEBASE(pgd), KVADDR, PGDIR_SIZE());
> pgd_pte = ULONG(machdep->pgd + PGDIR_OFFSET(page_dir));
> 

Then Mika can decide on how to proceed with the two patches.

Dave
 




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