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fadump: Add PT_NOTE program header for vmcoreinfo
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Introduce a PT_NOTE program header that points to physical address of
vmcoreinfo_note buffer declared in kernel/kexec.c. The vmcoreinfo
note buffer is populated during crash_fadump() at the time of system
crash.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Mahesh Salgaonkar authored and Benjamin Herrenschmidt committed Feb 22, 2012
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29 changes: 29 additions & 0 deletions arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
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Expand Up @@ -814,6 +814,19 @@ static void fadump_setup_crash_memory_ranges(void)
}
}

/*
* If the given physical address falls within the boot memory region then
* return the relocated address that points to the dump region reserved
* for saving initial boot memory contents.
*/
static inline unsigned long fadump_relocate(unsigned long paddr)
{
if (paddr > RMA_START && paddr < fw_dump.boot_memory_size)
return fdm.rmr_region.destination_address + paddr;
else
return paddr;
}

static int fadump_create_elfcore_headers(char *bufp)
{
struct elfhdr *elf;
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(elf->e_phnum)++;

/* setup ELF PT_NOTE for vmcoreinfo */
phdr = (struct elf_phdr *)bufp;
bufp += sizeof(struct elf_phdr);
phdr->p_type = PT_NOTE;
phdr->p_flags = 0;
phdr->p_vaddr = 0;
phdr->p_align = 0;

phdr->p_paddr = fadump_relocate(paddr_vmcoreinfo_note());
phdr->p_offset = phdr->p_paddr;
phdr->p_memsz = vmcoreinfo_max_size;
phdr->p_filesz = vmcoreinfo_max_size;

/* Increment number of program headers. */
(elf->e_phnum)++;

/* setup PT_LOAD sections. */

for (i = 0; i < crash_mem_ranges; i++) {
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