The ELF header created among the loading of the kdump kernel should be
flagged using the current endianess and not always as big endian.
Without this patch the data exposed in /proc/vmcore are not readable when
running in LE mode.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
kexec/arch/ppc64/crashdump-ppc64.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kexec/arch/ppc64/crashdump-ppc64.c b/kexec/arch/ppc64/crashdump-ppc64.c
index 00a0e632f48e..6214b831fdf2 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/ppc64/crashdump-ppc64.c
+++ b/kexec/arch/ppc64/crashdump-ppc64.c
@@ -38,7 +38,11 @@
static struct crash_elf_info elf_info64 =
{
class: ELFCLASS64,
+#if BYTE_ORDER == LITTLE_ENDIAN
+ data: ELFDATA2LSB,
+#else
data: ELFDATA2MSB,
+#endif
machine: EM_PPC64,
page_offset: PAGE_OFFSET,
lowmem_limit: MAXMEM,
