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powerpc/fadump: Update fadump documentation

With the unnecessary restriction to reserve memory for fadump at the
top of RAM forgone, update the documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Hari Bathini 8 years ago
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      Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt

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Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt

@@ -105,21 +105,21 @@ memory is held.
 
 
 If there is no waiting dump data, then only the memory required
 If there is no waiting dump data, then only the memory required
 to hold CPU state, HPTE region, boot memory dump and elfcore
 to hold CPU state, HPTE region, boot memory dump and elfcore
-header, is reserved at the top of memory (see Fig. 1). This area
-is *not* released: this region will be kept permanently reserved,
-so that it can act as a receptacle for a copy of the boot memory
-content in addition to CPU state and HPTE region, in the case a
-crash does occur.
+header, is usually reserved at an offset greater than boot memory
+size (see Fig. 1). This area is *not* released: this region will
+be kept permanently reserved, so that it can act as a receptacle
+for a copy of the boot memory content in addition to CPU state
+and HPTE region, in the case a crash does occur.
 
 
   o Memory Reservation during first kernel
   o Memory Reservation during first kernel
 
 
-  Low memory                                        Top of memory
+  Low memory                                         Top of memory
   0      boot memory size                                       |
   0      boot memory size                                       |
-  |           |                       |<--Reserved dump area -->|
-  V           V                       |   Permanent Reservation V
-  +-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+
-  |           |                       |CPU|HPTE|  DUMP     |ELF |
-  +-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+
+  |           |                |<--Reserved dump area -->|      |
+  V           V                |   Permanent Reservation |      V
+  +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+-----------+----+------+
+  |           |                |CPU|HPTE|  DUMP     |ELF |      |
+  +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+-----------+----+------+
         |                                           ^
         |                                           ^
         |                                           |
         |                                           |
         \                                           /
         \                                           /
@@ -135,12 +135,12 @@ crash does occur.
   0      boot memory size                                       |
   0      boot memory size                                       |
   |           |<------------- Reserved dump area ----------- -->|
   |           |<------------- Reserved dump area ----------- -->|
   V           V                                                 V
   V           V                                                 V
-  +-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+
-  |           |                       |CPU|HPTE|  DUMP     |ELF |
-  +-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+
-        |                                                    |
-        V                                                    V
-   Used by second                                    /proc/vmcore
+  +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+-----------+----+------+
+  |           |                |CPU|HPTE|  DUMP     |ELF |      |
+  +-----------+----------/ /---+---+----+-----------+----+------+
+        |                                              |
+        V                                              V
+   Used by second                                /proc/vmcore
    kernel to boot
    kernel to boot
                    Fig. 2
                    Fig. 2