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    [POWERPC] kdump: Reserve the existing TCE mappings left by the first kernel · 5f50867b
    Haren Myneni authored
    During kdump boot, noticed some machines checkstop on dma protection
    fault for ongoing DMA left in the first kernel. Instead of initializing
    TCE entries in iommu_init() for the kdump boot, this patch fixes this
    issue by walking through the each TCE table and checks whether the
    entries are in use by the first kernel. If so, reserve those entries by
    setting the corresponding bit in tbl->it_map such that these entries
    will not be available for the kdump boot.
    
    However it could be possible that all TCE entries might be used up due
    to the driver bug that does continuous mapping. My observation is around
    1700 TCE  entries are used on some systems (Ex: P4) at some point of
    time during kdump boot and saving dump (either write into the disk or
    sending to remote machine). Hence, this patch will make sure that
    minimum of 2048 entries will be available such that kdump boot could be
    successful in some cases.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHaren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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