From: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
index cab56e7..5689954 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++) {
