linux-toradex.git/kernel/kexec.c, branch v3.2-rc5

[S390] kdump: Add infrastructure for unmapping crashkernel memory

2011-10-30T14:16:42+00:00

This patch introduces a mechanism that allows architecture backends to
remove page tables for the crashkernel memory. This can protect the loaded
kdump kernel from being overwritten by broken kernel code.  Two new
functions crash_map_reserved_pages() and crash_unmap_reserved_pages() are
added that can be implemented by architecture code.  The
crash_map_reserved_pages() function is called before and
crash_unmap_reserved_pages() after the crashkernel segments are loaded.  The
functions are also called in crash_shrink_memory() to create/remove page
tables when the crashkernel memory size is reduced.

To support architectures that have large pages this patch also introduces
a new define KEXEC_CRASH_MEM_ALIGN. The crashkernel start and size must
always be aligned with KEXEC_CRASH_MEM_ALIGN.

Cc: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal 
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] kdump: Initialize vmcoreinfo note at startup

2011-10-30T14:16:42+00:00

Currently the vmcoreinfo note is only initialized in case of kdump. On s390
it is possible to create kernel dumps with other dump mechanisms than kdump
(e.g. via hypervisor dump or stand-alone dump tools). For those dumps it
would also be desirable to include the vmcoreinfo data. To accomplish this,
with this patch the vmcoreinfo ELF note is always initialized, not only in
case of a (kdump) crash. On s390 we will add an ABI defined pointer at
a well known address to vmcoreinfo so that dump analysis tools are able to
find this information.

In particular on s390 we have a tool named zgetdump. With this tool it is
possible to convert dump formats on the fly using fuse. E.g. you can mount a
s390 stand-alone dump as ELF dump. When this is done, the tool finds the
vmcoreinfo in the stand-alone dump via the well known ABI defined address and
it creates the respective VMCOREINFO ELF note in the output ELF dump. This then
can be used e.g. by makedumpfile for dump filtering.  No more need for a
vmlinux file with debug information.

So this will look like the following:
$ zgetdump --mount standalone.dump -f elf /mnt
$ ls /mnt
  dump.elf
$ readelf -n /mnt/dump.elf
$ ...
  VMCOREINFO            0x00000474      Unknown note type: (0x00000000)
$ makedumpfile -c -d 31 /mnt/dump.elf dump.kdump

Cc: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal 
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] kdump: Add KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT

2011-10-30T14:16:41+00:00

On s390 there is a different KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT for the normal and
the kdump kexec case. Therefore this patch introduces a new macro
KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT. This is set to
KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT for all architectures that do not define
KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT.

Acked-by: Vivek Goyal 
Acked-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

treewide: Convert uses of struct resource to resource_size(ptr)

2011-06-10T12:55:36+00:00

Several fixes as well where the +1 was missing.

Done via coccinelle scripts like:

@@
struct resource *ptr;
@@

- ptr->end - ptr->start + 1
+ resource_size(ptr)

and some grep and typing.

Mostly uncompiled, no cross-compilers.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

PM: Remove sysdev suspend, resume and shutdown operations

2011-05-11T19:37:15+00:00

Since suspend, resume and shutdown operations in struct sysdev_class
and struct sysdev_driver are not used any more, remove them.  Also
drop sysdev_suspend(), sysdev_resume() and sysdev_shutdown() used
for executing those operations and modify all of their users
accordingly.  This reduces kernel code size quite a bit and reduces
its complexity.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

PM: Add missing syscore_suspend() and syscore_resume() calls

2011-04-19T22:36:11+00:00

Device suspend/resume infrastructure is used not only by the suspend
and hibernate code in kernel/power, but also by APM, Xen and the
kexec jump feature.  However, commit 40dc166cb5dddbd36aa4ad11c03915ea
(PM / Core: Introduce struct syscore_ops for core subsystems PM)
failed to add syscore_suspend() and syscore_resume() calls to that
code, which generally leads to breakage when the features in question
are used.

To fix this problem, add the missing syscore_suspend() and
syscore_resume() calls to arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c, kernel/kexec.c
and drivers/xen/manage.c.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Acked-by: Ian Campbell

Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6

2011-04-07T18:14:49+00:00

* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6:
  Fix common misspellings

kdump: Allow shrinking of kdump region to be overridden

2011-04-01T05:14:30+00:00

On ppc64 the crashkernel region almost always overlaps an area of firmware.
This works fine except when using the sysfs interface to reduce the kdump
region. If we free the firmware area we are guaranteed to crash.

Rename free_reserved_phys_range to crash_free_reserved_phys_range and make
it a weak function so we can override it.

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

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos

2010-11-01T19:38:34+00:00

"gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address",
"between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already",
"equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest",
"relative", "memory", "offset", "already",

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina