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| author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2011-05-18 17:06:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2011-05-18 17:06:49 +0200 |
| commit | 6b7b8e488bbdedeccabdd001a78ffcbe43bb8a3a (patch) | |
| tree | f2f77cc31b4548745778fca6a51b09e1d8a49804 /kernel/crash_dump.c | |
| parent | b50f315cbb865079a16a12fd9ae6083f98fd592c (diff) | |
| parent | c1d10d18c542278b7fbc413c289d3cb6219da6b3 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into upstream.
This is sync with Linus' tree to receive KEY_IMAGES definition
that went in through input tree.
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/crash_dump.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/crash_dump.c | 34 |
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/crash_dump.c b/kernel/crash_dump.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..5f85690285d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/crash_dump.c @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +#include <linux/kernel.h> +#include <linux/crash_dump.h> +#include <linux/init.h> +#include <linux/errno.h> +#include <linux/module.h> + +/* + * If we have booted due to a crash, max_pfn will be a very low value. We need + * to know the amount of memory that the previous kernel used. + */ +unsigned long saved_max_pfn; + +/* + * stores the physical address of elf header of crash image + * + * Note: elfcorehdr_addr is not just limited to vmcore. It is also used by + * is_kdump_kernel() to determine if we are booting after a panic. Hence put + * it under CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP and not CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE. + */ +unsigned long long elfcorehdr_addr = ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX; + +/* + * elfcorehdr= specifies the location of elf core header stored by the crashed + * kernel. This option will be passed by kexec loader to the capture kernel. + */ +static int __init setup_elfcorehdr(char *arg) +{ + char *end; + if (!arg) + return -EINVAL; + elfcorehdr_addr = memparse(arg, &end); + return end > arg ? 0 : -EINVAL; +} +early_param("elfcorehdr", setup_elfcorehdr); |
