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[S390] Export vmcoreinfo note
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This patch defines for s390 an ABI defined pointer to the vmcoreinfo note at
a well known address. With this patch tools are able to find this information
in dumps created by stand-alone or hypervisor dump tools.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Michael Holzheu authored and Martin Schwidefsky committed Oct 30, 2011
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10 changes: 6 additions & 4 deletions arch/s390/include/asm/lowcore.h
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Expand Up @@ -151,10 +151,11 @@ struct _lowcore {
*/
__u32 ipib; /* 0x0e00 */
__u32 ipib_checksum; /* 0x0e04 */
__u32 vmcore_info; /* 0x0e08 */

/* 64 bit save area */
__u64 save_area_64; /* 0x0e08 */
__u8 pad_0x0e10[0x0f00-0x0e10]; /* 0x0e10 */
__u64 save_area_64; /* 0x0e0c */
__u8 pad_0x0e14[0x0f00-0x0e14]; /* 0x0e14 */

/* Extended facility list */
__u64 stfle_fac_list[32]; /* 0x0f00 */
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*/
__u64 ipib; /* 0x0e00 */
__u32 ipib_checksum; /* 0x0e08 */
__u64 vmcore_info; /* 0x0e0c */

/* 64 bit save area */
__u64 save_area_64; /* 0x0e0c */
__u8 pad_0x0e14[0x0f00-0x0e14]; /* 0x0e14 */
__u64 save_area_64; /* 0x0e14 */
__u8 pad_0x0e1c[0x0f00-0x0e1c]; /* 0x0e1c */

/* Extended facility list */
__u64 stfle_fac_list[32]; /* 0x0f00 */
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10 changes: 10 additions & 0 deletions arch/s390/kernel/setup.c
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Expand Up @@ -558,6 +558,15 @@ static void __init setup_restart_psw(void)
copy_to_absolute_zero(&S390_lowcore.restart_psw, &psw, sizeof(psw));
}

static void __init setup_vmcoreinfo(void)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
unsigned long ptr = paddr_vmcoreinfo_note();

copy_to_absolute_zero(&S390_lowcore.vmcore_info, &ptr, sizeof(ptr));
#endif
}

#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP

/*
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reserve_crashkernel();
setup_memory();
setup_resources();
setup_vmcoreinfo();
setup_restart_psw();
setup_lowcore();

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