[PATCH] i386: Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps

The specific case I am encountering is kdump under Xen with a 64 bit
hypervisor and 32 bit kernel/userspace.  The dump created is 64 bit due to
the hypervisor but the dump kernel is 32 bit for maximum compatibility.

It's possibly less likely to be useful in a purely native scenario but I
see no reason to disallow it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-i386/kexec.h b/include/asm-i386/kexec.h
index c5b4ab95bdc2..bcb5b21de2d2 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/kexec.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/kexec.h
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@
 /* The native architecture */
 #define KEXEC_ARCH KEXEC_ARCH_386
 
+/* We can also handle crash dumps from 64 bit kernel. */
+#define vmcore_elf_check_arch_cross(x) ((x)->e_machine == EM_X86_64)
+
 #define MAX_NOTE_BYTES 1024
 
 /* CPU does not save ss and esp on stack if execution is already