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author | Srikant Patnaik | 2015-01-13 15:08:24 +0530 |
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committer | Srikant Patnaik | 2015-01-13 15:08:24 +0530 |
commit | 97327692361306d1e6259021bc425e32832fdb50 (patch) | |
tree | fe9088f3248ec61e24f404f21b9793cb644b7f01 /kernel/crash_dump.c | |
parent | 2d05a8f663478a44e088d122e0d62109bbc801d0 (diff) | |
parent | a3a8b90b61e21be3dde9101c4e86c881e0f06210 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/kernel/crash_dump.c b/kernel/crash_dump.c new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c766ee54 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/crash_dump.c @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +#include <linux/kernel.h> +#include <linux/crash_dump.h> +#include <linux/init.h> +#include <linux/errno.h> +#include <linux/export.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; + +/* + * stores the size of elf header of crash image + */ +unsigned long long elfcorehdr_size; + +/* + * 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. + * + * Syntax: elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] + */ +static int __init setup_elfcorehdr(char *arg) +{ + char *end; + if (!arg) + return -EINVAL; + elfcorehdr_addr = memparse(arg, &end); + if (*end == '@') { + elfcorehdr_size = elfcorehdr_addr; + elfcorehdr_addr = memparse(end + 1, &end); + } + return end > arg ? 0 : -EINVAL; +} +early_param("elfcorehdr", setup_elfcorehdr); |