[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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