1. 18 3月, 2009 1 次提交
  2. 28 8月, 2008 1 次提交
  3. 04 8月, 2008 1 次提交
  4. 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
  5. 20 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  6. 07 5月, 2007 1 次提交
  7. 27 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  8. 27 6月, 2006 1 次提交
  9. 17 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  10. 11 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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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
  11. 03 11月, 2005 1 次提交
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      powerpc: Merge asm-ppc/kexec.h and asm-ppc64/kexec.h · e1df870d
      Michael Ellerman 提交于
      Merge include/asm-ppc/kexec.h and include/asm-ppc64/kexec.h.
      
      The only thing that's really changed is that we now allocate crash_notes
      properly on PPC32. It's address is exported via sysfs, so it's not correct
      for it to be a pointer.
      
      I've also removed some of the "we don't use this" comments, because they're
      wrong (or perhaps were referring only to arch code).
      Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
      e1df870d
  12. 13 7月, 2005 1 次提交
  13. 26 6月, 2005 3 次提交
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      [PATCH] kexec code cleanup · 72414d3f
      Maneesh Soni 提交于
      o Following patch provides purely cosmetic changes and corrects CodingStyle
        guide lines related certain issues like below in kexec related files
      
        o braces for one line "if" statements, "for" loops,
        o more than 80 column wide lines,
        o No space after "while", "for" and "switch" key words
      
      o Changes:
        o take-2: Removed the extra tab before "case" key words.
        o take-3: Put operator at the end of line and space before "*/"
      Signed-off-by: NManeesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      72414d3f
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      [PATCH] kdump: Use real pt_regs from exception · 6e274d14
      Alexander Nyberg 提交于
      Makes kexec_crashdump() take a pt_regs * as an argument.  This allows to
      get exact register state at the point of the crash.  If we come from direct
      panic assertion NULL will be passed and the current registers saved before
      crashdump.
      
      This hooks into two places:
      die(): check the conditions under which we will panic when calling
      do_exit and go there directly with the pt_regs that caused the fatal
      fault.
      
      die_nmi(): If we receive an NMI lockup while in the kernel use the
      pt_regs and go directly to crash_kexec(). We're probably nested up badly
      at this point so this might be the only chance to escape with proper
      information.
      Signed-off-by: NAlexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      6e274d14
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      [PATCH] kexec: kexec ppc support · 70765aa4
      Eric W. Biederman 提交于
      I have tweaked this patch slightly to handle an empty list
      of pages to relocate passed to relocate_new_kernel.  And
      I have added ppc_md.machine_crash_shutdown.  To keep up with
      the changes in the generic kexec infrastructure.
      
      From: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
      
      The following patch adds support for kexec on the ppc32 platform.
      
      Non-OpenFirmware based platforms are likely to work directly without
      additional changes on the kernel side.  The kexec-tools userland package
      may need to be slightly updated, though.
      
      For OpenFirmware based machines, additional work is still needed on the
      kernel side before kexec support is ready.  Benjamin Herrenschmidt is
      kindly working on that part.
      
      In order for a ppc platform to use the kexec kernel services it must
      implement some ppc_md hooks.  Otherwise, kexec will be explicitly disabled,
      as suggested by benh.
      
      There are 3+1 new ppc_md hooks that a platform supporting kexec may
      implement.  Two of them are mandatory for kexec to work.  See
      include/asm-ppc/machdep.h for details.
      
      - machine_kexec_prepare(image)
      
        This function is called to make any arrangements to the image before it
        is loaded.
      
        This hook _MUST_ be provided by a platform in order to activate kexec
        support for that platform.  Otherwise, the platform is considered to not
        support kexec and the kexec_load system call will fail (that makes all
        existing platforms by default non-kexec'able).
      
      - machine_kexec_cleanup(image)
      
        This function is called to make any cleanups on image after the loaded
        image data it is freed.  This hook is optional.  A platform may or may
        not provide this hook.
      
      - machine_kexec(image)
      
        This function is called to perform the _actual_ kexec.  This hook
        _MUST_ be provided by a platform in order to activate kexec support for
        that platform.
      
        If a platform provides machine_kexec_prepare but forgets to provide
        machine_kexec, a kexec will fall back to a reboot.
      
        A ready-to-use machine_kexec_simple() generic function is provided to,
        hopefully, simplify kexec adoption for embedded platforms.  A platform
        may call this function from its specific machine_kexec hook, like this:
      
      void myplatform_kexec(struct kimage *image)
      {
              machine_kexec_simple(image);
      }
      
      - machine_shutdown()
      
        This function is called to perform any machine specific shutdowns, not
        already done by drivers.  This hook is optional.  A platform may or may
        not provide this hook.
      
      An example (trimmed) platform specific module for a platform supporting
      kexec through the existing machine_kexec_simple follows:
      
      /* ... */
      
      #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
      int myplatform_kexec_prepare(struct kimage *image)
      {
              /* here, we can place additional preparations
      */
              return 0; /* yes, we support kexec */
      }
      
      void myplatform_kexec(struct kimage *image)
      {
              machine_kexec_simple(image);
      }
      #endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC */
      
      /* ... */
      
      void __init
      platform_init(unsigned long r3, unsigned long r4,
      unsigned long r5,
                    unsigned long r6, unsigned long r7)
      {
      
      /* ... */
      
      #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
              ppc_md.machine_kexec_prepare =
      myplatform_kexec_prepare;
              ppc_md.machine_kexec         =
      myplatform_kexec;
      #endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC */
      
      /* ... */
      
      }
      
      The kexec ppc kernel support has been heavily tested on the GameCube Linux
      port, and, as reported in the fastboot mailing list, it has been tested too
      on a Moto 82xx ppc by Rick Richardson.
      Signed-off-by: NAlbert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
      Signed-off-by: NEric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Acked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      70765aa4