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author | Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> | 2005-06-26 01:58:19 +0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-06-26 03:24:53 +0400 |
commit | 60e64d46a58236e3c718074372cab6a5b56a3b15 (patch) | |
tree | 194e5fa7a53a1ac4a106b1527ec69cf3c2179bb0 /kernel | |
parent | 5f016456c96868c27df248a54d1cc919e7b70a23 (diff) |
[PATCH] kdump: Routines for copying dump pages
This patch provides the interfaces necessary to read the dump contents,
treating it as a high memory device.
Signed off by Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/Makefile | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/crash_dump.c | 49 |
2 files changed, 50 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile index cfc8b0dea950..cb05cd05d237 100644 --- a/kernel/Makefile +++ b/kernel/Makefile @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL) += auditsc.o obj-$(CONFIG_KPROBES) += kprobes.o obj-$(CONFIG_SYSFS) += ksysfs.o obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS) += irq/ +obj-$(CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP) += crash_dump.o obj-$(CONFIG_SECCOMP) += seccomp.o ifneq ($(CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER),y) diff --git a/kernel/crash_dump.c b/kernel/crash_dump.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..5a1e6d5d203e --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/crash_dump.c @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +/* + * kernel/crash_dump.c - Memory preserving reboot related code. + * + * Created by: Hariprasad Nellitheertha (hari@in.ibm.com) + * Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 2004. All rights reserved + */ + +#include <linux/smp_lock.h> +#include <linux/errno.h> +#include <linux/proc_fs.h> +#include <linux/bootmem.h> +#include <linux/highmem.h> +#include <linux/crash_dump.h> + +#include <asm/io.h> +#include <asm/uaccess.h> + +/* + * Copy a page from "oldmem". For this page, there is no pte mapped + * in the current kernel. We stitch up a pte, similar to kmap_atomic. + */ +ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long pfn, char *buf, + size_t csize, unsigned long offset, int userbuf) +{ + void *page, *vaddr; + + if (!csize) + return 0; + + page = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!page) + return -ENOMEM; + + vaddr = kmap_atomic_pfn(pfn, KM_PTE0); + copy_page(page, vaddr); + kunmap_atomic(vaddr, KM_PTE0); + + if (userbuf) { + if (copy_to_user(buf, (page + offset), csize)) { + kfree(page); + return -EFAULT; + } + } else { + memcpy(buf, (page + offset), csize); + } + + kfree(page); + return csize; +} |