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Commit 57e67001 authored by Sourabh Jain's avatar Sourabh Jain Committed by Michael Ellerman
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Documentation/powerpc: update fadump implementation details



The patch titled ("powerpc: make fadump resilient with memory add/remove
events") has made significant changes to the implementation of fadump,
particularly on elfcorehdr creation and fadump crash info header
structure. Therefore, updating the fadump implementation documentation
to reflect those changes.

Following updates are done to firmware assisted dump documentation:

1. The elfcorehdr is no longer stored after fadump HDR in the reserved
   dump area. Instead, the second kernel dynamically allocates memory
   for the elfcorehdr within the address range from 0 to the boot memory
   size. Therefore, update figures 1 and 2 of Memory Reservation during
   the first and second kernels to reflect this change.

2. A version field has been added to the fadump header to manage the
   future changes to fadump crash info header structure without changing
   the fadump header magic number in the future. Therefore, remove the
   corresponding TODO from the document.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240422195932.1583833-4-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
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