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2008-12-23powerpc/32: Wire up the trampoline code for kdumpDale Farnsworth
Wire up the trampoline code for ppc32 to relay exceptions from the vectors at address 0 to vectors at address 32MB, and modify Kconfig to enable Kdump support for all classic powerpcs. Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-10-31powerpc: Use is_kdump_kernel()Milton Miller
linux/crash_dump.h defines is_kdump_kernel() to be used by code that needs to know if the previous kernel crashed instead of a (clean) boot or reboot. This updates the just added powerpc code to use it. This is needed for the next commit, which will remove __kdump_flag. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-10-31powerpc: Kexec exit should not use magic numbersMilton Miller
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>
2008-10-22powerpc: Support for relocatable kdump kernelMohan Kumar M
This adds relocatable kernel support for kdump. With this one can use the same regular kernel to capture the kdump. A signature (0xfeed1234) is passed in r6 from panic code to the next kernel through kexec_sequence and purgatory code. The signature is used to differentiate between kdump kernel and non-kdump kernels. The purgatory code compares the signature and sets the __kdump_flag in head_64.S. During the boot up, kernel code checks __kdump_flag and if it is set, the kernel will behave as relocatable kdump kernel. This kernel will boot at the address where it was loaded by kexec-tools ie. at the address reserved through crashkernel boot parameter. CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP depends on CONFIG_RELOCATABLE option to build kdump kernel as relocatable. So the same kernel can be used as production and kdump kernel. This patch incorporates the changes suggested by Paul Mackerras to avoid GOT use and to avoid two copies of the code. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-08-04powerpc: Move include files to arch/powerpc/include/asmStephen Rothwell
from include/asm-powerpc. This is the result of a mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places where <asm-powepc/...> was being used explicitly. Of the latter only one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>