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| author | Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> | 2006-01-09 23:51:41 -0500 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-01-10 11:01:26 -0500 |
| commit | cc57165874e938ef684d71ba7d36e7088b551489 (patch) | |
| tree | e1847f5547a7a426214e9ef0719eab908ee305d7 /kernel/stop_machine.c | |
| parent | 82409411571ad89d271dc46f7fa26149fad9efdf (diff) | |
[PATCH] kdump: dynamic per cpu allocation of memory for saving cpu registers
- In case of system crash, current state of cpu registers is saved in memory
in elf note format. So far memory for storing elf notes was being allocated
statically for NR_CPUS.
- This patch introduces dynamic allocation of memory for storing elf notes.
It uses alloc_percpu() interface. This should lead to better memory usage.
- Introduced based on Andi Kleen's and Eric W. Biederman's suggestions.
- This patch also moves memory allocation for elf notes from architecture
dependent portion to architecture independent portion. Now crash_notes is
architecture independent. The whole idea is that size of memory to be
allocated per cpu (MAX_NOTE_BYTES) can be architecture dependent and
allocation of this memory can be architecture independent.
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>
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