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[Bug 1400209] Re: KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: HV: CMA: Reserve cma region only in hypervisor mode

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From: Chris J Arges <1400209@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:27:24 -0000
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Title:
  KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: HV: CMA: Reserve cma region only in hypervisor mode

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Problem Description
  ==================
  This bugzilla is opened to track the inclusion of the upstream commit mentioned below: 

  commit cec26bc3c125b5dd12a02f04133cd91eae3f1622
  Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Mon Sep 29 13:32:38 2014 +0530

      KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: HV: CMA: Reserve cma region only in hypervisor mode
      
      We use cma reserved area for creating guest hash page table.
      Don't do the reservation in non-hypervisor mode. This avoids unnecessary
      CMA reservation when booting with limited memory configs like
      fadump and kdump.
   
  ---uname output---
  ubuntu14.10
   
  Machine Type = ppc64

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