[RFC PATCH v4 06/10] fadump: Add PT_NOTE program header for vmcoreinfo
Cong Wang
amwang at redhat.com
Thu Nov 10 21:11:58 EST 2011
于 2011年11月07日 17:56, Mahesh J Salgaonkar 写道:
> From: Mahesh Salgaonkar<mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Introduce a PT_NOTE program header that points to physical address of
> vmcoreinfo_note buffer declared in kernel/kexec.c. The vmcoreinfo
> note buffer is populated during crash_fadump() at the time of system
> crash.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar<mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> index 70d6287..e68ee3a 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> @@ -816,6 +816,19 @@ static void setup_crash_memory_ranges(void)
> }
> }
>
> +/*
> + * If the given physical address falls within the boot memory region then
> + * return the relocated address that points to the dump region reserved
> + * for saving initial boot memory contents.
> + */
> +static inline unsigned long relocate(unsigned long paddr)
> +{
> + if (paddr> RMR_START&& paddr< fw_dump.boot_memory_size)
> + return fdm.rmr_region.destination_address + paddr;
> + else
> + return paddr;
> +}
Although they are static functions, it is still better to name them
with "fadump_" prefix...
Thanks.
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