[PATCH v5 06/10] x86, cleanup: Store crash memory ranges kexec_info

WANG Chao chaowang at redhat.com
Thu Apr 10 20:17:46 PDT 2014


On 04/11/14 at 10:20am, Dave Young wrote:
> On 04/10/14 at 05:13pm, WANG Chao wrote:
> > Add two new members to kexec_info structure:
> > 
> > struct memory_range *crash_range
> > int nr_crash_ranges;
> > 
> > crash_range contains the memory ranges used to boot 2nd kernel.
> > nr_crash_ranges contains the count of the crash memory ranges.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c | 6 ++++++
> >  kexec/kexec.h                   | 2 ++
> >  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c b/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c
> > index 2437c30..2a6871d 100644
> > --- a/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c
> > +++ b/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c
> > @@ -997,6 +997,12 @@ int load_crashdump_segments(struct kexec_info *info, char* mod_cmdline,
> >  		add_memmap(memmap_p, &nr_memmap_p, start, size, type);
> >  		cmdline_add_memmap_acpi(mod_cmdline, start, end);
> >  	}
> > +
> > +	/* Store 2nd kernel boot memory ranges for later reference in
> > +	 * x86-setup-linux.c: setup_linux_system_parameters() */
> > +	info->crash_range = memmap_p;
> > +	info->nr_crash_ranges = nr_memmap_p;
> > +
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> >  
> > diff --git a/kexec/kexec.h b/kexec/kexec.h
> > index d69bba2..22d4a42 100644
> > --- a/kexec/kexec.h
> > +++ b/kexec/kexec.h
> > @@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ struct kexec_info {
> >  	int nr_segments;
> >  	struct memory_range *memory_range;
> >  	int memory_ranges;
> > +	struct memory_range *crash_range;
> > +	int nr_crash_ranges;
> 
> Is the memory_range field used in crash case? If not how about reuse the field for crash ranges.

We need memory_range field in the --pass-memmap-cmdline case.

> 
> >  	void *entry;
> >  	struct mem_ehdr rhdr;
> >  	unsigned long backup_start;
> > -- 
> > 1.8.5.3
> > 



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