Replace kmap_atomic_pfn() with kmap_local_pfn() which is preemptible and can take page faults. Remove the indirection of the dump page and the related cruft which is not longer required. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- V3: New patch --- arch/mips/kernel/crash_dump.c | 42 +++++++----------------------------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) --- a/arch/mips/kernel/crash_dump.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/crash_dump.c @@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ #include <linux/uaccess.h> #include <linux/slab.h> -static void *kdump_buf_page; - /** * copy_oldmem_page - copy one page from "oldmem" * @pfn: page frame number to be copied @@ -17,51 +15,25 @@ static void *kdump_buf_page; * @userbuf: if set, @buf is in user address space, use copy_to_user(), * otherwise @buf is in kernel address space, use memcpy(). * - * Copy a page from "oldmem". For this page, there is no pte mapped + * Copy a page from "oldmem". For this page, there might be no pte mapped * in the current kernel. - * - * Calling copy_to_user() in atomic context is not desirable. Hence first - * copying the data to a pre-allocated kernel page and then copying to user - * space in non-atomic context. */ -ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long pfn, char *buf, - size_t csize, unsigned long offset, int userbuf) +ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long pfn, char *buf, size_t csize, + unsigned long offset, int userbuf) { void *vaddr; if (!csize) return 0; - vaddr = kmap_atomic_pfn(pfn); + vaddr = kmap_local_pfn(pfn); if (!userbuf) { - memcpy(buf, (vaddr + offset), csize); - kunmap_atomic(vaddr); + memcpy(buf, vaddr + offset, csize); } else { - if (!kdump_buf_page) { - pr_warn("Kdump: Kdump buffer page not allocated\n"); - - return -EFAULT; - } - copy_page(kdump_buf_page, vaddr); - kunmap_atomic(vaddr); - if (copy_to_user(buf, (kdump_buf_page + offset), csize)) - return -EFAULT; + if (copy_to_user(buf, vaddr + offset, csize)) + csize = -EFAULT; } return csize; } - -static int __init kdump_buf_page_init(void) -{ - int ret = 0; - - kdump_buf_page = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!kdump_buf_page) { - pr_warn("Kdump: Failed to allocate kdump buffer page\n"); - ret = -ENOMEM; - } - - return ret; -} -arch_initcall(kdump_buf_page_init);