kernel-ark/include/asm-mips/kexec.h
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

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/*
* kexec.h for kexec
* Created by <nschichan@corp.free.fr> on Thu Oct 12 14:59:34 2006
*
* This source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License,
* Version 2. See the file COPYING for more details.
*/
#ifndef _MIPS_KEXEC
# define _MIPS_KEXEC
/* Maximum physical address we can use pages from */
#define KEXEC_SOURCE_MEMORY_LIMIT (0x20000000)
/* Maximum address we can reach in physical address mode */
#define KEXEC_DESTINATION_MEMORY_LIMIT (0x20000000)
/* Maximum address we can use for the control code buffer */
#define KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT (0x20000000)
#define KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE_SIZE 4096
/* The native architecture */
#define KEXEC_ARCH KEXEC_ARCH_MIPS
static inline void crash_setup_regs(struct pt_regs *newregs,
struct pt_regs *oldregs)
{
/* Dummy implementation for now */
}
#endif /* !_MIPS_KEXEC */