From: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
To: paawan oza <paawan1982@yahoo.com>; "Discussion list for crash utility usage, maintenance and development" <crash-utility@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Fänge <thomas.fange@sonymobile.com>; Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>; Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@iki.fi>;
jan karlsson <jan.karlsson@sonymobile.com>
Sent: Thursday, 4 October 2012 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] using crash for ARM
----- 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