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| author | Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> | 2008-10-22 10:39:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2008-10-31 16:11:44 +1100 |
| commit | 1767c8f392857694899403a65942cc70b5b7d132 (patch) | |
| tree | 609181f519dbf8569808b564a2b15358b79596f5 /arch/powerpc/include | |
| parent | 8694a1c6056f1f5f006a0442428f2df5171b9656 (diff) | |
powerpc: Kexec exit should not use magic numbers
Commit 54622f10a6aabb8bb2bdacf3dd070046f03dc246 ("powerpc: Support for
relocatable kdump kernel") added a magic flag value in a register to
tell purgatory that it should be a panic kernel. This part is wrong
and is reverted by this commit.
The kernel gets a list of memory blocks and a entry point from user space.
Its job is to copy the blocks into place and then branch to the designated
entry point (after turning "off" the mmu).
The user space tool inserts a trampoline, called purgatory, that runs
before the user supplied code. Its job is to establish the entry
environment for the new kernel or other application based on the contents
of memory. The purgatory code is compiled and embedded in the tool,
where it is later patched using the elf symbol table using elf symbols.
Since the tool knows it is creating a purgatory that will run after a
kernel crash, it should just patch purgatory (or the kernel directly)
if something needs to happen.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/kdump.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kdump.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kdump.h index a503da9d56f..821ed48c10e 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kdump.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kdump.h @@ -9,12 +9,6 @@ * Reserve to the end of the FWNMI area, see head_64.S */ #define KDUMP_RESERVE_LIMIT 0x10000 /* 64K */ -/* - * Used to differentiate between relocatable kdump kernel and other - * kernels - */ -#define KDUMP_SIGNATURE 0xfeed1234 - #ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP #define KDUMP_TRAMPOLINE_START 0x0100 |