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| author | Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com> | 2008-10-21 17:38:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-10-22 15:01:22 +1100 |
| commit | 54622f10a6aabb8bb2bdacf3dd070046f03dc246 (patch) | |
| tree | 73eb5ad4eeb7174b8c0ae1904bbe80602c5e295d /Documentation/kdump | |
| parent | 4792adbac9eb41cea77a45ab76258ea10d411173 (diff) | |
powerpc: Support for relocatable kdump kernel
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 <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kdump')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt index 0705040531a..3f4bc840da8 100644 --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt @@ -109,7 +109,8 @@ There are two possible methods of using Kdump. 2) Or use the system kernel binary itself as dump-capture kernel and there is no need to build a separate dump-capture kernel. This is possible only with the architecutres which support a relocatable kernel. As - of today, i386, x86_64 and ia64 architectures support relocatable kernel. + of today, i386, x86_64, ppc64 and ia64 architectures support relocatable + kernel. Building a relocatable kernel is advantageous from the point of view that one does not have to build a second kernel for capturing the dump. But @@ -207,8 +208,15 @@ Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, i386 and x86_64) Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, ppc64) ---------------------------------------------------------- -* Make and install the kernel and its modules. DO NOT add this kernel - to the boot loader configuration files. +1) Enable "Build a kdump crash kernel" support under "Kernel" options: + + CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y + +2) Enable "Build a relocatable kernel" support + + CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y + + Make and install the kernel and its modules. Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, ia64) ---------------------------------------------------------- |