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authorMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-02-16 01:14:53 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2012-02-23 10:50:02 +1100
commitd34c5f26cf7de52a72ee064698817a5a39b91767 (patch)
treee4e1d536bc244a27b97a6751da0306e989f478ec /arch/powerpc/kernel
parentebaeb5ae24379b5b635dc1d1fa6df904bc95b4d9 (diff)
fadump: Add PT_NOTE program header for vmcoreinfo
Introduce a PT_NOTE program header that points to physical address of vmcoreinfo_note buffer declared in kernel/kexec.c. The vmcoreinfo note buffer is populated during crash_fadump() at the time of system crash. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c29
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
index da68bdad194..a83bc9015c6 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
@@ -814,6 +814,19 @@ static void fadump_setup_crash_memory_ranges(void)
}
}
+/*
+ * If the given physical address falls within the boot memory region then
+ * return the relocated address that points to the dump region reserved
+ * for saving initial boot memory contents.
+ */
+static inline unsigned long fadump_relocate(unsigned long paddr)
+{
+ if (paddr > RMA_START && paddr < fw_dump.boot_memory_size)
+ return fdm.rmr_region.destination_address + paddr;
+ else
+ return paddr;
+}
+
static int fadump_create_elfcore_headers(char *bufp)
{
struct elfhdr *elf;
@@ -845,6 +858,22 @@ static int fadump_create_elfcore_headers(char *bufp)
(elf->e_phnum)++;
+ /* setup ELF PT_NOTE for vmcoreinfo */
+ phdr = (struct elf_phdr *)bufp;
+ bufp += sizeof(struct elf_phdr);
+ phdr->p_type = PT_NOTE;
+ phdr->p_flags = 0;
+ phdr->p_vaddr = 0;
+ phdr->p_align = 0;
+
+ phdr->p_paddr = fadump_relocate(paddr_vmcoreinfo_note());
+ phdr->p_offset = phdr->p_paddr;
+ phdr->p_memsz = vmcoreinfo_max_size;
+ phdr->p_filesz = vmcoreinfo_max_size;
+
+ /* Increment number of program headers. */
+ (elf->e_phnum)++;
+
/* setup PT_LOAD sections. */
for (i = 0; i < crash_mem_ranges; i++) {