For percpu notes, we are exporting only address and not size. So
the userspace tool kexec-tools is putting an upper limit of 1024
and putting the value in p_memsz and p_filesz fields. So the patch
add the new sysfile crash_notes_size to export the exact percpu
note size and let the kexec-tools parse it intead of using 1024.
The idea came from Vivek Goyal. And a later patch will be sent to
kexec-tools to let it parse the size.
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei at cn.fujitsu.com>
---
drivers/base/cpu.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c
index fb10728..a55b590 100644
--- a/drivers/base/cpu.c
+++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c
@@ -132,6 +132,17 @@ static ssize_t show_crash_notes(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *att
return rc;
}
static DEVICE_ATTR(crash_notes, 0400, show_crash_notes, NULL);
+
+static ssize_t show_crash_notes_size(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr,
+ char *buf)
+{
+ ssize_t rc;
+
+ rc = sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", sizeof(note_buf_t));
+ return rc;
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR(crash_notes_size, 0400, show_crash_notes_size, NULL);
#endif
/*
@@ -259,6 +270,9 @@ int __cpuinit register_cpu(struct cpu *cpu, int num)
#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
if (!error)
error = device_create_file(&cpu->dev, &dev_attr_crash_notes);
+ if (!error)
+ error = device_create_file(&cpu->dev,
+ &dev_attr_crash_notes_size);
#endif
return error;
}
--
1.7.1
