Re: [PATCH v21 8/8] Documentation: dt: usable-memory and elfcorehdr nodes for arm64 kexec

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, 06 Juli 2016, 16:52:26 schrieb AKASHI Takahiro:

+linux,usable-memory
+-------------------
+
+This property is set on PowerPC and arm64 by kexec-tools during kdump
+to tell the crash kernel the base address of its reserved area of memory,
and +the size. e.g.
+
+/ {
+	chosen {
+		linux,usable-memory = <0x9 0xf0000000 0x0 0x10000000>;
+	};
+};

Again, this description is wrong for PowerPC. See messages from myself and 
Michael Ellerman:

https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2016-June/016250.html

https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2016-June/016253.html

IMHO, it would be simpler if ARM used linux,usable-memory in the same way 
that PowerPC does, for consistency.

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Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center