1. 17 2月, 2010 1 次提交
  2. 16 12月, 2009 1 次提交
  3. 31 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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      kexec/i386: allocate page table pages dynamically · 92be3d6b
      Huang Ying 提交于
      Impact: save .text size when kexec is built in but not loaded
      
      This patch adds an architecture specific struct kimage_arch into
      struct kimage. The pointers to page table pages used by kexec are
      added to struct kimage_arch. The page tables pages are dynamically
      allocated in machine_kexec_prepare instead of statically from BSS
      segment. This will save up to 20k memory when kexec image is not
      loaded.
      Signed-off-by: NHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      92be3d6b
  4. 15 8月, 2008 1 次提交
  5. 06 8月, 2008 1 次提交
  6. 27 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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      kexec jump · 3ab83521
      Huang Ying 提交于
      This patch provides an enhancement to kexec/kdump.  It implements the
      following features:
      
      - Backup/restore memory used by the original kernel before/after
        kexec.
      
      - Save/restore CPU state before/after kexec.
      
      The features of this patch can be used as a general method to call program in
      physical mode (paging turning off).  This can be used to call BIOS code under
      Linux.
      
      kexec-tools needs to be patched to support kexec jump. The patches and
      the precompiled kexec can be download from the following URL:
      
             source: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-src_git_kh10.tar.bz2
             patches: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-patches_git_kh10.tar.bz2
             binary: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec_git_kh10
      
      Usage example of calling some physical mode code and return:
      
      1. Compile and install patched kernel with following options selected:
      
      CONFIG_X86_32=y
      CONFIG_KEXEC=y
      CONFIG_PM=y
      CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP=y
      
      2. Build patched kexec-tool or download the pre-built one.
      
      3. Build some physical mode executable named such as "phy_mode"
      
      4. Boot kernel compiled in step 1.
      
      5. Load physical mode executable with /sbin/kexec. The shell command
         line can be as follow:
      
         /sbin/kexec --load-preserve-context --args-none phy_mode
      
      6. Call physical mode executable with following shell command line:
      
         /sbin/kexec -e
      
      Implementation point:
      
      To support jumping without reserving memory.  One shadow backup page (source
      page) is allocated for each page used by kexeced code image (destination
      page).  When do kexec_load, the image of kexeced code is loaded into source
      pages, and before executing, the destination pages and the source pages are
      swapped, so the contents of destination pages are backupped.  Before jumping
      to the kexeced code image and after jumping back to the original kernel, the
      destination pages and the source pages are swapped too.
      
      C ABI (calling convention) is used as communication protocol between
      kernel and called code.
      
      A flag named KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT for sys_kexec_load is added to
      indicate that the loaded kernel image is used for jumping back.
      
      Now, only the i386 architecture is supported.
      Signed-off-by: NHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Acked-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
      Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
      Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3ab83521
  7. 08 2月, 2008 3 次提交
  8. 20 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Extended crashkernel command line · cba63c30
      Bernhard Walle 提交于
      This patch adds a extended crashkernel syntax that makes the value of reserved
      system RAM dependent on the system RAM itself:
      
          crashkernel=<range1>:<size1>[,<range2>:<size2>,...][@offset]
          range=start-[end]
      
      For example:
      
          crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
      
      The motivation comes from distributors that configure their crashkernel
      command line automatically with some configuration tool (YaST, you know ;)).
      Of course that tool knows the value of System RAM, but if the user removes
      RAM, then the system becomes unbootable or at least unusable and error
      handling is very difficult.
      
      This series implements this change for i386, x86_64, ia64, ppc64 and sh.  That
      should be all platforms that support kdump in current mainline.  I tested all
      platforms except sh due to the lack of a sh processor.
      
      This patch:
      
      This is the generic part of the patch.  It adds a parse_crashkernel() function
      in kernel/kexec.c that is called by the architecture specific code that
      actually reserves the memory.  That function takes the whole command line and
      looks itself for "crashkernel=" in it.
      
      If there are multiple occurrences, then the last one is taken.  The advantage
      is that if you have a bootloader like lilo or elilo which allows you to append
      a command line parameter but not to remove one (like in GRUB), then you can
      add another crashkernel value for testing at the boot command line and this
      one overwrites the command line in the configuration then.
      Signed-off-by: NBernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      cba63c30
  9. 17 10月, 2007 4 次提交
  10. 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
  11. 16 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [ARM] 4137/1: Add kexec support · c587e4a6
      Richard Purdie 提交于
      Add kexec support to ARM.
      
      Improvements like commandline handling could be made but this patch gives
      basic functional support. It uses the next available syscall number, 347.
      
      Once the syscall number is known, userspace support will be
      finalised/submitted to kexec-tools, various patches already exist.
      
      Originally based on a patch by Maxim Syrchin but updated and forward
      ported by various people.
      Signed-off-by: NRichard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
      Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      c587e4a6
  12. 08 12月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [IA64] IA64 Kexec/kdump · a7956113
      Zou Nan hai 提交于
      Changes and updates.
      
      1. Remove fake rendz path and related code according to discuss with Khalid Aziz.
      2. fc.i offset fix in relocate_kernel.S.
      3. iospic shutdown code eoi and mask race fix from Fujitsu.
      4. Warm boot hook in machine_kexec to SN SAL code from Jack Steiner.
      5. Send slave to SAL slave loop patch from Jay Lan.
      6. Kdump on non-recoverable MCA event patch from Jay Lan
      7. Use CTL_UNNUMBERED in kdump_on_init sysctl.
      Signed-off-by: NZou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      a7956113
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      [PATCH] Kexec / Kdump: Unify elf note code · 85916f81
      Magnus Damm 提交于
      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: NMagnus 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: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      85916f81
  13. 30 11月, 2006 1 次提交
  14. 23 6月, 2006 1 次提交
  15. 11 2月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] kexec: fix in free initrd when overlapped with crashkernel region · 9c15e852
      Haren Myneni 提交于
      It is possible that the reserved crashkernel region can be overlapped with
      initrd since the bootloader sets the initrd location.  When the initrd
      region is freed, the second kernel memory will not be contiguous.  The
      Kexec_load can cause an oops since there is no contiguous memory to write
      the second kernel or this memory could be used in the first kernel itself
      and may not be part of the dump.  For example, on powerpc, the initrd is
      located at 36MB and the crashkernel starts at 32MB.  The kexec_load caused
      panic since writing into non-allocated memory (after 36MB).  We could see
      the similar issue even on other archs.
      
      One possibility is to move the initrd outside of crashkernel region.  But,
      the initrd region will be freed anyway before the system is up.  This patch
      fixes this issue and frees only regions that are not part of crashkernel
      memory in case overlaps.
      Signed-off-by: NHaren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: N"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      9c15e852
  16. 17 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  17. 11 1月, 2006 2 次提交
  18. 26 6月, 2005 4 次提交