[PATCH 0/2] two backports for makedumpfile

[Vivek Goyal]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 12:08:51AM +0800, WANG Chao wrote:
> Hi, there's two backports I'd like to pull in.
> 
> The first one is addressing broken --dump-dmesg issue towards 3.11 kernel and
> later.
> The second one fixes filter issues on powerpc when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is
> set.
> 
> Actually, I only plan to pull in the 2nd patch. But since 2nd patch can not be
> applied directly without the 1st one and I want to keep all the backport as
> clean as possible. So I decide to pull in the both patches.
> 
> PS. I don't think 1st patch would cause any regression
> 
> Please review these and let me know if you have any concern.
> 

Hi Chao,

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>

Vivek

> WANG Chao (2):
>   makedumpfile: Understand >= v3.11-rc4 dmesg.
>   makedumpfile, ppc: Support to filter dump for kernels that use
>     CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP.
> 
>  ...pport-to-filter-dump-for-kernels-that-use.patch | 429 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  ...4-makedumpfile-Understand-v3.11-rc4-dmesg.patch | 197 ++++++++++
>  kexec-tools.spec                                   |   4 +
>  3 files changed, 630 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 kexec-tools-2.0.4-makedumpfile-Support-to-filter-dump-for-kernels-that-use.patch
>  create mode 100644 kexec-tools-2.0.4-makedumpfile-Understand-v3.11-rc4-dmesg.patch
> 
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