Merge branch 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-2.6

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/crash_dump.c b/kernel/crash_dump.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5f85690285d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/crash_dump.c
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+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+
+/*
+ * If we have booted due to a crash, max_pfn will be a very low value. We need
+ * to know the amount of memory that the previous kernel used.
+ */
+unsigned long saved_max_pfn;
+
+/*
+ * stores the physical address of elf header of crash image
+ *
+ * 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 put
+ * it under CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP and not CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE.
+ */
+unsigned long long elfcorehdr_addr = ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX;
+
+/*
+ * elfcorehdr= specifies the location of elf core header stored by the crashed
+ * kernel. This option will be passed by kexec loader to the capture kernel.
+ */
+static int __init setup_elfcorehdr(char *arg)
+{
+        char *end;
+        if (!arg)
+                return -EINVAL;
+        elfcorehdr_addr = memparse(arg, &end);
+        return end > arg ? 0 : -EINVAL;
+}
+early_param("elfcorehdr", setup_elfcorehdr);