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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2008-10-21 15:52:04 +1100
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2008-10-21 15:52:04 +1100
commita02efb906d12c9d4eb2ab7c59049ba9545e5412d (patch)
treebf1f6467978ec63a22f42299ecac2ee7f7e73336 /arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
parent84dfcb4b318463cd4883b6a19937824f49aee564 (diff)
parent2515ddc6db8eb49a79f0fe5e67ff09ac7c81eab4 (diff)
Merge commit 'origin' into master
Manual merge of: arch/powerpc/Kconfig arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
index a323c9b32ee1..97e056379728 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
#define DBG(fmt...)
#endif
+/* Stores the physical address of elf header of crash image. */
+unsigned long long elfcorehdr_addr = ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX;
+
void __init reserve_kdump_trampoline(void)
{
lmb_reserve(0, KDUMP_RESERVE_LIMIT);
@@ -66,7 +69,11 @@ void __init setup_kdump_trampoline(void)
DBG(" <- setup_kdump_trampoline()\n");
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE
+/*
+ * Note: elfcorehdr_addr is not just limited to vmcore. It is also used by
+ * is_kdump_kernel() to determine if we are booting after a panic. Hence
+ * ifdef it under CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP and not CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE.
+ */
static int __init parse_elfcorehdr(char *p)
{
if (p)
@@ -75,7 +82,6 @@ static int __init parse_elfcorehdr(char *p)
return 1;
}
__setup("elfcorehdr=", parse_elfcorehdr);
-#endif
static int __init parse_savemaxmem(char *p)
{