kexec: support for kexec on panic using new system call
authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Fri, 8 Aug 2014 21:26:09 +0000 (14:26 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 8 Aug 2014 22:57:33 +0000 (15:57 -0700)
This patch adds support for loading a kexec on panic (kdump) kernel usning
new system call.

It prepares ELF headers for memory areas to be dumped and for saved cpu
registers.  Also prepares the memory map for second kernel and limits its
boot to reserved areas only.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/crash.h [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c
arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
arch/x86/purgatory/entry64.S
kernel/kexec.c

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diff --cc kernel/kexec.c
Simple merge