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* [PATCH 0/3] kexec/fadump: remove dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC and reuse crashkernel parameter for fadump
@ 2016-11-10 11:57 Hari Bathini
  2016-11-10 11:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] crash: move crashkernel parsing and vmcore related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE Hari Bathini
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Hari Bathini @ 2016-11-10 11:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: fenghua.yu, tony.luck, linux-ia64, dyoung, kexec,
	Mahesh J Salgaonkar, ebiederm, Michael Ellerman, linuxppc-dev,
	vgoyal

Traditionally, kdump is used to save vmcore in case of a crash. Some
architectures like powerpc can save vmcore using architecture specific
support instead of kexec/kdump mechanism. Such architecture specific
support also needs to reserve memory, to be used by dump capture kernel.
crashkernel parameter can be a reused, for memory reservation, by such
architecture specific infrastructure.

This patchset removes dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC for crashkernel parameter
and vmcoreinfo related code as it can be reused without kexec support. Also,
crashkernel parameter is reused instead of fadump_reserve_mem to reserve
memory for fadump.

The first patch moves crashkernel parameter parsing and vmcoreinfo related
code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE instead of CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE to reuse without
depending on it. The second patch reuses crashkernel for reserving memory
for fadump instead of fadump_reserve_mem. This has the advantage of using
all the syntaxes crashkernel supports, for fadump as well. The third patch
updates fadump kernel documentation about use of crashkernel parameter.

---

Hari Bathini (3):
      crash: move crashkernel parsing and vmcore related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE
      powerpc/fadump: reuse crashkernel parameter for fadump memory reservation
      powerpc/fadump: update documentation about crashkernel parameter reuse


 Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt |   23 +
 arch/Kconfig                                     |    4 
 arch/ia64/kernel/crash.c                         |   22 -
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig                             |   10 
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/fadump.h                |    2 
 arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c                      |    2 
 arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c                     |   57 +--
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c               |    5 
 include/linux/crash_core.h                       |   75 ++++
 include/linux/kexec.h                            |   63 ---
 kernel/Makefile                                  |    1 
 kernel/crash_core.c                              |  450 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/kexec_core.c                              |  435 ---------------------
 13 files changed, 575 insertions(+), 574 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/linux/crash_core.h
 create mode 100644 kernel/crash_core.c

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