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authorMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>2005-12-04 18:39:51 +1100
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-01-09 14:52:35 +1100
commit54c32021eb6feafc32e90104e960b38301521b7b (patch)
tree7aff1e11966569f4b8dce57d6f70eb4d1e72bec2 /arch
parentdcee30361d25ea83499a99f921f9a56b4a1a79e7 (diff)
[PATCH] powerpc: Add arch-dependent copy_oldmem_page
Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c36
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
index 5337ab75978..87effa3f21a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <asm/kdump.h>
#include <asm/lmb.h>
#include <asm/firmware.h>
+#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#ifdef DEBUG
#include <asm/udbg.h>
@@ -71,3 +72,38 @@ static int __init parse_savemaxmem(char *p)
return 0;
}
__setup("savemaxmem=", parse_savemaxmem);
+
+/*
+ * copy_oldmem_page - copy one page from "oldmem"
+ * @pfn: page frame number to be copied
+ * @buf: target memory address for the copy; this can be in kernel address
+ * space or user address space (see @userbuf)
+ * @csize: number of bytes to copy
+ * @offset: offset in bytes into the page (based on pfn) to begin the copy
+ * @userbuf: if set, @buf is in user address space, use copy_to_user(),
+ * otherwise @buf is in kernel address space, use memcpy().
+ *
+ * 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 *vaddr;
+
+ if (!csize)
+ return 0;
+
+ vaddr = __ioremap(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
+
+ if (userbuf) {
+ if (copy_to_user((char __user *)buf, (vaddr + offset), csize)) {
+ iounmap(vaddr);
+ return -EFAULT;
+ }
+ } else
+ memcpy(buf, (vaddr + offset), csize);
+
+ iounmap(vaddr);
+ return csize;
+}