[PATCH] kdump: Use real pt_regs from exception

Makes kexec_crashdump() take a pt_regs * as an argument.  This allows to
get exact register state at the point of the crash.  If we come from direct
panic assertion NULL will be passed and the current registers saved before
crashdump.

This hooks into two places:
die(): check the conditions under which we will panic when calling
do_exit and go there directly with the pt_regs that caused the fatal
fault.

die_nmi(): If we receive an NMI lockup while in the kernel use the
pt_regs and go directly to crash_kexec(). We're probably nested up badly
at this point so this might be the only chance to escape with proper
information.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kexec.h b/include/linux/kexec.h
index 0653a27c3d72..7383173a3a9c 100644
--- a/include/linux/kexec.h
+++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
@@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ extern asmlinkage long compat_sys_kexec_load(unsigned long entry,
         unsigned long flags);
 #endif
 extern struct page *kimage_alloc_control_pages(struct kimage *image, unsigned int order);
-extern void crash_kexec(void);
+extern void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *);
+int kexec_should_crash(struct task_struct *);
 extern struct kimage *kexec_image;
 
 #define KEXEC_ON_CRASH  0x00000001
@@ -123,6 +124,9 @@ extern struct kimage *kexec_image;
 extern struct resource crashk_res;
 
 #else /* !CONFIG_KEXEC */
-static inline void crash_kexec(void) { }
+struct pt_regs;
+struct task_struct;
+static inline void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs) { }
+static inline int kexec_should_crash(struct task_struct *p) { return 0; }
 #endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC */
 #endif /* LINUX_KEXEC_H */