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Author SHA1 Message Date
Heiko Carstens 996b4a7d8f s390/mem_detect: remove artificial kdump memory types
Simplify the memory detection code a bit by removing the CHUNK_OLDMEM
and CHUNK_CRASHK memory types.
They are not needed. Everything that is needed is a mechanism to
insert holes into the detected memory.

Reviewed-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2013-05-03 14:21:15 +02:00
Heiko Carstens df1bd59c5c s390/mem_detect: limit memory detection loop to "mem=" parameter
The current memory detection loop will detect all present memory of
a machine. This is true even if the user specified the "mem=" parameter
on the kernel command line.
This can be a problem since the memory detection may cause a fully
populated host page table for the guest, even for those parts of the
memory that the guest will never use afterwards.

So fix this and only detect memory up to a user supplied "mem=" limit
if specified.

Reported-by: Michael Johanssen <johanssn@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2013-05-02 15:50:26 +02:00
Heiko Carstens 6b563d8c26 s390/crashdump: move fill_cpu_elf_notes() prototype to header file
Move fill_cpu_elf_notes() prototype to header file.
This way we get compile errors if e.g. the number of function
parameters get changed.
Otherwise it's possible to change just the definition and everything
else still compiles fine, but the result is broken code.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2012-09-26 15:45:22 +02:00
Michael Holzheu 4857d4bbe9 [S390] kernel: Add OS info memory interface
In order to allow kdump based stand-alone dump, some information
has to be passed from the old kernel to the new dump kernel. This
is done via a the struct "os_info" that contains the following fields:
 * crashkernel base and size
 * reipl block
 * vmcoreinfo
 * init function
A pointer to os_info is stored at a well known storage location
and the whole structure as well as all fields are secured with
checksums.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2012-03-11 11:59:29 -04:00
Danny Kukawka d60331ac0d [S390] crash_dump: remove duplicate include
arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c included 'linux/crash_dump.h' twice,
remove the duplicate.

Signed-off-by: Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@bisect.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2012-02-24 18:01:36 +01:00
Michael Holzheu 07ea815b22 [S390] Remove error checking from copy_oldmem_page()
Currently it can happen that the pre-allocated ELF header contains a wrong
memory map which would result in errors when copying /proc/vmcore.
In order to still get a valid vmcore, we (temporarily) disable the error
checking in copy_oldmem_page(). This will then produce zero pages for those
memory regions.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2011-10-30 15:16:47 +01:00
Michael Holzheu 60a0c68df2 [S390] kdump backend code
This patch provides the architecture specific part of the s390 kdump
support.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2011-10-30 15:16:42 +01:00