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| author | Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> | 2007-10-16 23:27:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-17 08:42:54 -0700 |
| commit | fd59d231f81cb02870b9cf15f456a897f3669b4e (patch) | |
| tree | 5713c13bd678774f1ba3c42bfff5008c1812deae /arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | |
| parent | 0e647c04f665e9b3451a1ebe8252b38ffe0207c8 (diff) | |
Add vmcoreinfo
This patch set frees the restriction that makedumpfile users should install a
vmlinux file (including the debugging information) into each system.
makedumpfile command is the dump filtering feature for kdump. It creates a
small dumpfile by filtering unnecessary pages for the analysis. To
distinguish unnecessary pages, it needs a vmlinux file including the debugging
information. These days, the debugging package becomes a huge file, and it is
hard to install it into each system.
To solve the problem, kdump developers discussed it at lkml and kexec-ml. As
the result, we reached the conclusion that necessary information for dump
filtering (called "vmcoreinfo") should be embedded into the first kernel file
and it should be accessed through /proc/vmcore during the second kernel.
(http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.0/1806.html)
Dan Aloni created the patch set for the above implementation.
(http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.1/1053.html)
And I updated it for multi architectures and memory models.
(http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000479.html)
Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>
Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c index cd1899a2f0c..e333ea110a5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ #include <linux/kexec.h> #include <linux/string.h> #include <linux/reboot.h> +#include <linux/numa.h> #include <asm/pgtable.h> #include <asm/tlbflush.h> #include <asm/mmu_context.h> @@ -257,3 +258,11 @@ static int __init setup_crashkernel(char *arg) } early_param("crashkernel", setup_crashkernel); +void arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void) +{ +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE + SYMBOL(node_data); + LENGTH(node_data, MAX_NUMNODES); +#endif +} + |