[PATCH 6/6] kexec: Support for Kexec on panic using new system call
Baoquan He
bhe at redhat.com
Tue Dec 3 20:41:05 EST 2013
On 11/20/13 at 12:50pm, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> This patch adds support for loading a kexec on panic (kdump) kernel usning
> new system call.
> +int load_crashdump_segments(struct kimage *image)
> +{
> + unsigned long src_start, src_sz;
> + unsigned long elf_addr, elf_sz;
> + int ret;
> +
> + /*
> + * Determine and load a segment for backup area. First 640K RAM
> + * region is backup source
> + */
> +
> + ret = walk_system_ram_res(KEXEC_BACKUP_SRC_START, KEXEC_BACKUP_SRC_END,
> + image, determine_backup_region);
> +
> + /* Zero of postive return values are ok */
^
Here I guess it is "or".
> + if (ret < 0)
> + return ret;
> +
> + src_start = image->arch.backup_src_start;
> + src_sz = image->arch.backup_src_sz;
> +
> + /* Add backup segment. */
> + if (src_sz) {
> + ret = kexec_add_buffer(image, __va(src_start), src_sz, src_sz,
> + PAGE_SIZE, 0, -1, 0,
> + &image->arch.backup_load_addr);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> + }
> +
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