Hi All, How does following series of patches look like. I have moved elfcorehdr_addr out of vmcore.c and pushed it to arch dependent section of crash dump to make sure that it can be worked with even when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE is disabled and CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is enabled. I tested it on x86_64. Compile tested it on i386 and ppc64. ia64 and sh versions are completely untested. Thanks Vivek o elfcorehdr_addr is used by not only the code under CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE but also by the code which is not inside CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE. For example, is_kdump_kernel() is used by powerpc code to determine if kernel is booting after a panic then use previous kernel's TCE table. So even if CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE is not set in second kernel, one should be able to correctly determine that we are booting after a panic and setup calgary iommu accordingly. o So remove the assumption that elfcorehdr_addr is under CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE. o Move definition of elfcorehdr_addr to arch dependent crash files. (Unfortunately crash dump does not have an arch independent file otherwise that would have been the best place). o kexec.c is not the right place as one can Have CRASH_DUMP enabled in second kernel without KEXEC being enabled. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/vmcore.c | 3 --- include/linux/crash_dump.h | 14 ++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/proc/vmcore.c~remove-elfcore-hdr-addr-definition-vmcore fs/proc/vmcore.c --- linux-2.6.27-pre-rc1/fs/proc/vmcore.c~remove-elfcore-hdr-addr-definition-vmcore 2008-07-28 09:19:50.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.27-pre-rc1-root/fs/proc/vmcore.c 2008-07-28 09:20:10.000000000 -0400 @@ -32,9 +32,6 @@ static size_t elfcorebuf_sz; /* Total size of vmcore file. */ static u64 vmcore_size; -/* Stores the physical address of elf header of crash image. */ -unsigned long long elfcorehdr_addr = ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX; - struct proc_dir_entry *proc_vmcore = NULL; /* Reads a page from the oldmem device from given offset. */ diff -puN include/linux/crash_dump.h~remove-elfcore-hdr-addr-definition-vmcore include/linux/crash_dump.h --- linux-2.6.27-pre-rc1/include/linux/crash_dump.h~remove-elfcore-hdr-addr-definition-vmcore 2008-07-28 12:00:44.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.27-pre-rc1-root/include/linux/crash_dump.h 2008-07-28 12:00:56.000000000 -0400 @@ -9,11 +9,7 @@ #define ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX (-1ULL) -#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE extern unsigned long long elfcorehdr_addr; -#else -static const unsigned long long elfcorehdr_addr = ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX; -#endif extern ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long, char *, size_t, unsigned long, int); @@ -28,6 +24,16 @@ extern struct proc_dir_entry *proc_vmcor #define vmcore_elf_check_arch(x) (elf_check_arch(x) || vmcore_elf_check_arch_cross(x)) +/* + * is_kdump_kernel() checks whether this kernel is booting after a panic of + * previous kernel or not. This is determined by checking if previous kernel + * has passed the elf core header address on command line. + * + * This is not just a test if CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is enabled or not. It will + * return 1 if CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y and if kernel is booting after a panic of + * previous kernel. + */ + static inline int is_kdump_kernel(void) { return (elfcorehdr_addr != ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX) ? 1 : 0; _ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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