[PATCH] crashdump: x86 crashkernel option

This is the x86 implementation of the crashkernel option.  It reserves a
window of memory very early in the bootup process, so we never use it for
anything but the kernel to switch to when the running kernel panics.

In addition to reserving this memory a resource structure is registered so
looking at /proc/iomem it is clear what happened to that memory.

ISSUES:
Is it possible to implement this in a architecture generic way?
What should be done with architectures that always use an iommu and
thus don't report their RAM memory resources in /proc/iomem?

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c b/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
index 6337157f5df3..d88ebdfa6ccd 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
@@ -43,7 +43,10 @@
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/edd.h>
 #include <linux/nodemask.h>
+#include <linux/kexec.h>
+
 #include <video/edid.h>
+
 #include <asm/apic.h>
 #include <asm/e820.h>
 #include <asm/mpspec.h>
@@ -846,6 +849,27 @@ static void __init parse_cmdline_early (char ** cmdline_p)
                         lapic_disable();
 #endif /* CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
+                /* crashkernel=size@addr specifies the location to reserve for
+                 * a crash kernel.  By reserving this memory we guarantee
+                 * that linux never set's it up as a DMA target.
+                 * Useful for holding code to do something appropriate
+                 * after a kernel panic.
+                 */
+                else if (!memcmp(from, "crashkernel=", 12)) {
+                        unsigned long size, base;
+                        size = memparse(from+12, &from);
+                        if (*from == '@') {
+                                base = memparse(from+1, &from);
+                                /* FIXME: Do I want a sanity check
+                                 * to validate the memory range?
+                                 */
+                                crashk_res.start = base;
+                                crashk_res.end   = base + size - 1;
+                        }
+                }
+#endif
+
                 /*
                  * highmem=size forces highmem to be exactly 'size' bytes.
                  * This works even on boxes that have no highmem otherwise.
@@ -1181,6 +1205,11 @@ void __init setup_bootmem_allocator(void)
                 }
         }
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
+        if (crashk_res.start != crashk_res.end)
+                reserve_bootmem(crashk_res.start,
+                        crashk_res.end - crashk_res.start + 1);
+#endif
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1234,6 +1263,9 @@ legacy_init_iomem_resources(struct resource *code_resource, struct resource *dat
                          */
                         request_resource(res, code_resource);
                         request_resource(res, data_resource);
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
+                        request_resource(res, &crashk_res);
+#endif
                 }
         }
 }