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5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Simon Horman
6672f76a5a kdump/kexec: calculate note size at compile time
Currently the size of the per-cpu region reserved to save crash notes is
set by the per-architecture value MAX_NOTE_BYTES.  Which in turn is
currently set to 1024 on all supported architectures.

While testing ia64 I recently discovered that this value is in fact too
small.  The particular setup I was using actually needs 1172 bytes.  This
lead to very tedious failure mode where the tail of one elf note would
overwrite the head of another if they ended up being alocated sequentially
by kmalloc, which was often the case.

It seems to me that a far better approach is to caclculate the size that
the area needs to be.  This patch does just that.

If a simpler stop-gap patch for ia64 to be squeezed into 2.6.21(.X) is
needed then this should be as easy as making MAX_NOTE_BYTES larger in
arch/asm-ia64/kexec.h.  Perhaps 2048 would be a good choice.  However, I
think that the approach in this patch is a much more robust idea.

Acked-by:  Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
Paul Mundt
4d5ade5b29 sh: kdump support.
This adds support for kexec based crash dumps.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-05-07 02:11:56 +00:00
Paul Mundt
9d549a7d8e sh: Update kexec support for API changes.
This was falling a bit behind..

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2006-09-27 18:26:05 +09:00
Paul Mundt
0f08f33808 sh: More cosmetic cleanups and trivial fixes.
Nothing exciting here, just trivial fixes..

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2006-09-27 17:03:56 +09:00
kogiidena
9d44190eae [PATCH] sh: kexec() support
This adds kexec() support for SH.

Signed-off-by: kogiidena <kogiidena@eggplant.ddo.jp>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: <fastboot@lists.osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:15:27 -08:00