[Crash-utility] ARM support for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM:(was Re:DDimage)

[Mika Westerberg]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:11:35PM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > And I guess VTOP/PTOV needs modification in accordance with
> > __phys_to_virt and __virt_to_phys.
> 
> Right...
> 
> Ultimately it will be advisable to extract the ARM VTOP() and PTOV()
> macros into machine-dependent functions, i.e., similar to the X86_64
> and IA64 architectures.  And in those functions, intelligence will
> have to be applied to determine how to handle the various ARM types.

I agree. We need to start to separate different ARM platforms where normal
v<->p rules don't apply and add necessary code to perform the translations.