From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e28smtp07.in.ibm.com (e28smtp07.in.ibm.com [122.248.162.7]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e28smtp07.in.ibm.com", Issuer "GeoTrust SSL CA" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 04C76100924 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:24:01 +1100 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e28smtp07.in.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 15:28:32 +0530 Received: from d28av05.in.ibm.com (d28av05.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.67]) by d28relay03.in.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id pA79uDYb2682976 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 15:26:13 +0530 Received: from d28av05.in.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d28av05.in.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id pA79uDeZ006193 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 20:56:13 +1100 Subject: [RFC PATCH v4 07/10] fadump: Introduce cleanup routine to invalidate /proc/vmcore. To: linuxppc-dev , Linux Kernel , Benjamin Herrenschmidt From: Mahesh J Salgaonkar Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:26:12 +0530 Message-ID: <20111107095612.1997.27442.stgit@mars.in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20111107095215.1997.14866.stgit@mars.in.ibm.com> References: <20111107095215.1997.14866.stgit@mars.in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Cc: Amerigo Wang , Milton Miller , "Eric W. Biederman" , Anton Blanchard List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Mahesh Salgaonkar With the firmware-assisted dump support we don't require a reboot when we are in second kernel after crash. The second kernel after crash is a normal kernel boot and has knowledge about entire system RAM with the page tables initialized for entire system RAM. Hence once the dump is saved to disk, we can just release the reserved memory area for general use and continue with second kernel as production kernel. Hence when we release the reserved memory that contains dump data, the '/proc/vmcore' will not be valid anymore. Hence this patch introduces a cleanup routine that invalidates and removes the /proc/vmcore file. This routine will be invoked before we release the reserved dump memory area. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar --- fs/proc/vmcore.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/vmcore.c b/fs/proc/vmcore.c index cd99bf5..fae5526 100644 --- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c +++ b/fs/proc/vmcore.c @@ -699,3 +699,26 @@ static int __init vmcore_init(void) return 0; } module_init(vmcore_init) + +/* Cleanup function for vmcore module. */ +void vmcore_cleanup(void) +{ + struct list_head *pos, *next; + + if (proc_vmcore) { + remove_proc_entry(proc_vmcore->name, proc_vmcore->parent); + proc_vmcore = NULL; + } + + /* clear the vmcore list. */ + list_for_each_safe(pos, next, &vmcore_list) { + struct vmcore *m; + + m = list_entry(pos, struct vmcore, list); + list_del(&m->list); + kfree(m); + } + kfree(elfcorebuf); + elfcorebuf = NULL; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vmcore_cleanup);