Merge branches 'sh/clkfwk' and 'sh/kexec'

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c b/arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c
index 95d216255565..37c97d444576 100644
--- a/arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c
+++ b/arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
  *      Created by: Hariprasad Nellitheertha (hari@in.ibm.com)
  *      Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 2004. All rights reserved
  */
-
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/crash_dump.h>
 #include <linux/io.h>
@@ -13,6 +12,25 @@
 /* Stores the physical address of elf header of crash image. */
 unsigned long long elfcorehdr_addr = ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX;
 
+/*
+ * Note: elfcorehdr_addr is not just limited to vmcore. It is also used by
+ * is_kdump_kernel() to determine if we are booting after a panic. Hence
+ * ifdef it under CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP and not CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE.
+ *
+ * elfcorehdr= specifies the location of elf core header
+ * stored by the crashed kernel.
+ */
+static int __init parse_elfcorehdr(char *arg)
+{
+        if (!arg)
+                return -EINVAL;
+
+        elfcorehdr_addr = memparse(arg, &arg);
+
+        return 0;
+}
+early_param("elfcorehdr", parse_elfcorehdr);
+
 /**
  * copy_oldmem_page - copy one page from "oldmem"
  * @pfn: page frame number to be copied