[PATCH] Kexec / Kdump: Unify elf note code

The elf note saving code is currently duplicated over several
architectures.  This cleanup patch simply adds code to a common file and
then replaces the arch-specific code with calls to the newly added code.

The only drawback with this approach is that s390 doesn't fully support
kexec-on-panic which for that arch leads to introduction of unused code.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 56 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index d43692cf2321..afbbbe981be2 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
 #include <linux/ioport.h>
 #include <linux/hardirq.h>
+#include <linux/elf.h>
+#include <linux/elfcore.h>
 
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -1066,6 +1068,60 @@ void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
         }
 }
 
+static u32 *append_elf_note(u32 *buf, char *name, unsigned type, void *data,
+                            size_t data_len)
+{
+        struct elf_note note;
+
+        note.n_namesz = strlen(name) + 1;
+        note.n_descsz = data_len;
+        note.n_type   = type;
+        memcpy(buf, &note, sizeof(note));
+        buf += (sizeof(note) + 3)/4;
+        memcpy(buf, name, note.n_namesz);
+        buf += (note.n_namesz + 3)/4;
+        memcpy(buf, data, note.n_descsz);
+        buf += (note.n_descsz + 3)/4;
+
+        return buf;
+}
+
+static void final_note(u32 *buf)
+{
+        struct elf_note note;
+
+        note.n_namesz = 0;
+        note.n_descsz = 0;
+        note.n_type   = 0;
+        memcpy(buf, &note, sizeof(note));
+}
+
+void crash_save_cpu(struct pt_regs *regs, int cpu)
+{
+        struct elf_prstatus prstatus;
+        u32 *buf;
+
+        if ((cpu < 0) || (cpu >= NR_CPUS))
+                return;
+
+        /* Using ELF notes here is opportunistic.
+         * I need a well defined structure format
+         * for the data I pass, and I need tags
+         * on the data to indicate what information I have
+         * squirrelled away.  ELF notes happen to provide
+         * all of that, so there is no need to invent something new.
+         */
+        buf = (u32*)per_cpu_ptr(crash_notes, cpu);
+        if (!buf)
+                return;
+        memset(&prstatus, 0, sizeof(prstatus));
+        prstatus.pr_pid = current->pid;
+        elf_core_copy_regs(&prstatus.pr_reg, regs);
+        buf = append_elf_note(buf, "CORE", NT_PRSTATUS, &prstatus,
+                                sizeof(prstatus));
+        final_note(buf);
+}
+
 static int __init crash_notes_memory_init(void)
 {
         /* Allocate memory for saving cpu registers. */