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authorIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2011-05-07 10:51:38 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2011-05-07 10:51:48 +0200
commit4cb1f43ce8c72ee453c00fcb9f6ee9c4ebd03f98 (patch)
tree15e64f192b54ea01fd640d69eed0cabed2baaaa9 /kernel/crash_dump.c
parent9de4966a4d218f29c68e96e8e7b4d2840dedec79 (diff)
parent0ee5623f9a6e52df90a78bd21179f8ab370e102e (diff)
Merge commit 'v2.6.39-rc6' into x86/cleanups
Merge reason: move to a (much) newer upstream base. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/kernel/crash_dump.c b/kernel/crash_dump.c
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+#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);