1. 30 1月, 2008 1 次提交
  2. 11 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  3. 09 5月, 2007 1 次提交
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      kdump/kexec: calculate note size at compile time · 6672f76a
      Simon Horman 提交于
      Currently the size of the per-cpu region reserved to save crash notes is
      set by the per-architecture value MAX_NOTE_BYTES.  Which in turn is
      currently set to 1024 on all supported architectures.
      
      While testing ia64 I recently discovered that this value is in fact too
      small.  The particular setup I was using actually needs 1172 bytes.  This
      lead to very tedious failure mode where the tail of one elf note would
      overwrite the head of another if they ended up being alocated sequentially
      by kmalloc, which was often the case.
      
      It seems to me that a far better approach is to caclculate the size that
      the area needs to be.  This patch does just that.
      
      If a simpler stop-gap patch for ia64 to be squeezed into 2.6.21(.X) is
      needed then this should be as easy as making MAX_NOTE_BYTES larger in
      arch/asm-ia64/kexec.h.  Perhaps 2048 would be a good choice.  However, I
      think that the approach in this patch is a much more robust idea.
      Acked-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6672f76a
  4. 26 9月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V4, x86_64) · 4bfaaef0
      Magnus Damm 提交于
      kexec: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V4, x86_64)
      
      This patch upgrades the x86_64-specific kexec code to avoid overwriting the
      current pgd. Overwriting the current pgd is bad when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is used
      to start a secondary kernel that dumps the memory of the previous kernel.
      
      The code introduces a new set of page tables. These tables are used to provide
      an executable identity mapping without overwriting the current pgd.
      Signed-off-by: NMagnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      4bfaaef0
  5. 04 2月, 2006 1 次提交
  6. 11 1月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] kdump: x86_64 save cpu registers upon crash · ec9ce0db
      Vivek Goyal 提交于
      - Saving the cpu registers of all cpus before booting in to the crash
        kernel.
      
      - crash_setup_regs will save the registers of the cpu on which panic has
        occured.  One of the concerns ppc64 folks raised is that after capturing the
        register states, one should not pop the current call frame and push new one.
         Hence it has been inlined.  More call frames later get pushed on to stack
        (machine_crash_shutdown() and machine_kexec()), but one will not want to
        backtrace those.
      
      - Not very sure about the CFI annotations.  With this patch I am getting
        decent backtrace with gdb.  Assuming, compiler has generated enough
        debugging information for crash_kexec().  Coding crash_setup_regs() in pure
        assembly makes it tricky because then it can not be inlined and we don't
        want to return back after capturing register states we don't want to pop
        this call frame.
      
      - Saving the non-panicing cpus registers will be done in the NMI handler
        while shooting down them in machine_crash_shutdown.
      
      - Introducing CRASH_DUMP option in Kconfig for x86_64.
      Signed-off-by: NMurali M Chakravarthy <muralim@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      ec9ce0db
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      [PATCH] kdump: dynamic per cpu allocation of memory for saving cpu registers · cc571658
      Vivek Goyal 提交于
      - 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: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      cc571658
  7. 26 6月, 2005 2 次提交