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2008-08-04powerpc: Move include files to arch/powerpc/include/asmStephen Rothwell
from include/asm-powerpc. This is the result of a mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places where <asm-powepc/...> was being used explicitly. Of the latter only one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-17[POWERPC] pseries/phyp dump: Reserve a variable amount of space at bootManish Ahuja
This changes the way we calculate how much space to reserve for the pHyp dump. Currently we reserve 256MB only. With this change, the code first checks to see if an amount has been specified on the boot command line with the "phyp_dump_reserve_size" option, and if so, uses that much. Otherwise it computes 5% of total ram and rounds it down to a multiple of 256MB, and uses the larger of that or 256MB. This is for large systems with a lot of memory (10GB or more). The aim is to have more space available for the kernel on reboot on machines with more resources. Although the dump will be collected pretty fast and the memory released really early on allowing the machine to have the full memory available, this alleviates any issues that can be caused by having way too little memory on very very large systems during those few minutes. Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Disable phyp-dump through boot-varManish Ahuja
This adds a kernel command line option "phyp_dump", which takes a 0/1 value for disabling/ enabling phyp_dump at boot time. Kdump can use this on cmdline (phyp_dump=0) to disable phyp-dump during boot when enabling itself. This will ensure only one dumping mechanism is active at any given time. Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Invalidate and print dump areasManish Ahuja
This adds routines to a. invalidate dump b. calculate region that is reserved and needs to be freed. This is exported through sysfs interface. Unregister has been removed for now as it wasn't being used. Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Reserve and release memoryManish Ahuja
Initial patch for reserving memory in early boot, and freeing it later. If the previous boot had ended with a crash, the reserved memory would contain a copy of the crashed kernel data. Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>