linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c, branch v3.9.2

powerpc: Rename mapping based RELOCATABLE to DYNAMIC_MEMSTART for BookE

2011-12-20T15:20:19+00:00

The current implementation of CONFIG_RELOCATABLE in BookE is based
on mapping the page aligned kernel load address to KERNELBASE. This
approach however is not enough for platforms, where the TLB page size
is large (e.g, 256M on 44x). So we are renaming the RELOCATABLE used
currently in BookE to DYNAMIC_MEMSTART to reflect the actual method.

The CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for PPC32(BookE) based on processing of the
dynamic relocations will be introduced in the later in the patch series.

This change would allow the use of the old method of RELOCATABLE for
platforms which can afford to enforce the page alignment (platforms with
smaller TLB size).

Changes since v3:

* Introduced a new config, NONSTATIC_KERNEL, to denote a kernel which is
  either a RELOCATABLE or DYNAMIC_MEMSTART(Suggested by: Josh Boyer)

Suggested-by: Scott Wood 
Tested-by: Scott Wood 

Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose 
Cc: Scott Wood 
Cc: Kumar Gala 
Cc: Josh Boyer 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: linux ppc dev 
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer

crash_dump: export is_kdump_kernel to modules, consolidate elfcorehdr_addr, setup_elfcorehdr and saved_max_pfn

2011-03-24T02:47:19+00:00

The Xen PV drivers in a crashed HVM guest can not connect to the dom0
backend drivers because both frontend and backend drivers are still in
connected state.  To run the connection reset function only in case of a
crashdump, the is_kdump_kernel() function needs to be available for the PV
driver modules.

Consolidate elfcorehdr_addr, setup_elfcorehdr and saved_max_pfn into
kernel/crash_dump.c Also export elfcorehdr_addr to make is_kdump_kernel()
usable for modules.

Leave 'elfcorehdr' as early_param().  This changes powerpc from __setup()
to early_param().  It adds an address range check from x86 also on ia64
and powerpc.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: additional #includes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove elfcorehdr_addr export]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix for Tejun's mm/nobootmem.c changes]
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

powerpc/kdump: Override crash_free_reserved_phys_range to avoid freeing RTAS

2010-11-29T04:48:17+00:00

The crashkernel region will almost always overlap RTAS. If we free the
crashkernel region via "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size" then we will
free RTAS and the machine will crash in confusing and exciting ways.

Override crash_free_reserved_phys_range and check for overlap with RTAS.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge commit 'gcl/next' into next

2010-08-04T00:26:03+00:00

powerpc/crashdump: Fix issues with kexec and 36bit physical addr

2010-07-31T04:56:30+00:00

Fix sizes of variables so correct values are exported via /proc.
Cast variable in comparison to avoid compiler error.

Signed-off-by: Matthew McClintock 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

lmb: rename to memblock

2010-07-14T07:14:00+00:00

via following scripts

      FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

      sed -i \
        -e 's/lmb/memblock/g' \
        -e 's/LMB/MEMBLOCK/g' \
        $FILES

      for N in $(find . -name lmb.[ch]); do
        M=$(echo $N | sed 's/lmb/memblock/g')
        mv $N $M
      done

and remove some wrong change like lmbench and dlmb etc.

also move memblock.c from lib/ to mm/

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Unify opcode definitions and support

2009-02-22T23:48:56+00:00

Create a new header that becomes a single location for defining PowerPC
opcodes used by code that is either generationg instructions
at runtime (fixups, debug, etc.), emulating instructions, or just
compiling instructions old assemblers don't know about.

We currently don't handle the floating point emulation or alignment decode
as both are better handled by the specific decode support they already
have.

Added support for the new dcbzl, dcbal, msgsnd, tlbilx, & wait instructions
since older assemblers don't know about them.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Support for relocatable kdump kernel

2008-10-22T04:01:22+00:00

This adds relocatable kernel support for kdump. With this one can
use the same regular kernel to capture the kdump. A signature (0xfeed1234)
is passed in r6 from panic code to the next kernel through kexec_sequence
and purgatory code. The signature is used to differentiate between
kdump kernel and non-kdump kernels.

The purgatory code compares the signature and sets the __kdump_flag in
head_64.S.  During the boot up, kernel code checks __kdump_flag and if it
is set, the kernel will behave as relocatable kdump kernel. This kernel
will boot at the address where it was loaded by kexec-tools ie. at the
address reserved through crashkernel boot parameter.

CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP depends on CONFIG_RELOCATABLE option to build kdump
kernel as relocatable. So the same kernel can be used as production and
kdump kernel.

This patch incorporates the changes suggested by Paul Mackerras to avoid
GOT use and to avoid two copies of the code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Mohan Kumar M 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

kdump: make elfcorehdr_addr independent of CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE

2008-10-20T15:52:39+00:00

o elfcorehdr_addr is used by not only the code under CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE
  but also by the code which is not inside CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE.  For
  example, is_kdump_kernel() is used by powerpc code to determine if
  kernel is booting after a panic then use previous kernel's TCE table.
  So even if CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE is not set in second kernel, one should be
  able to correctly determine that we are booting after a panic and setup
  calgary iommu accordingly.

o So remove the assumption that elfcorehdr_addr is under
  CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE.

o Move definition of elfcorehdr_addr to arch dependent crash files.
  (Unfortunately crash dump does not have an arch independent file
  otherwise that would have been the best place).

o kexec.c is not the right place as one can Have CRASH_DUMP enabled in
  second kernel without KEXEC being enabled.

o I don't see sh setup code parsing the command line for
  elfcorehdr_addr.  I am wondering how does vmcore interface work on sh.
  Anyway, I am atleast defining elfcoredhr_addr so that compilation is not
  broken on sh.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal 
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Acked-by: Simon Horman 
Acked-by: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

powerpc: Fix /dev/oldmem interface for kdump

2008-08-19T23:50:21+00:00

A change to __ioremap() broke reading /dev/oldmem because we're no
longer able to ioremap pfn 0 (d177c207, "[PATCH] powerpc: IOMMU: don't
ioremap null addresses").

We actually don't need to ioremap for anything that's part of the linear
mapping, so just read it directly.

Also make sure we're only reading one page or less at a time.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Sachin Sant 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras