sysfs: Add crash_notes_size to export percpu note size

For percpu notes, we are exporting only address and not size. So
the userspace tool kexec-tools is putting an upper limit of 1024
and putting the value in p_memsz and p_filesz fields. So the patch
add the new sysfile crash_notes_size to export the exact percpu
note size and let the kexec-tools parse it intead of using 1024.

The idea came from Vivek Goyal. And a later patch will be sent to
kexec-tools to let it parse the size.

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c
index fb10728f6372..a55b5909176f 100644
--- a/drivers/base/cpu.c
+++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c
@@ -132,6 +132,17 @@ static ssize_t show_crash_notes(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *att
         return rc;
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR(crash_notes, 0400, show_crash_notes, NULL);
+
+static ssize_t show_crash_notes_size(struct device *dev,
+                                     struct device_attribute *attr,
+                                     char *buf)
+{
+        ssize_t rc;
+
+        rc = sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", sizeof(note_buf_t));
+        return rc;
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR(crash_notes_size, 0400, show_crash_notes_size, NULL);
 #endif
 
 /*
@@ -259,6 +270,9 @@ int __cpuinit register_cpu(struct cpu *cpu, int num)
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
         if (!error)
                 error = device_create_file(&cpu->dev, &dev_attr_crash_notes);
+        if (!error)
+                error = device_create_file(&cpu->dev,
+                                           &dev_attr_crash_notes_size);
 #endif
         return error;
 }