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Magnus Damm cee87af2a5 [IA64] kexec: Use EFI_LOADER_DATA for ELF core header ... The address where the ELF core header is stored is passed to the secondary kernel as a kernel command line option. The memory area for this header is also marked as a separate EFI memory descriptor on ia64. The separate EFI memory descriptor is at the moment of the type EFI_UNUSABLE_MEMORY. With such a type the secondary kernel skips over the entire memory granule (config option, 16M or 64M) when detecting memory. If we are lucky we will just lose some memory, but if we happen to have data in the same granule (such as an initramfs image), then this data will never get mapped and the kernel bombs out when trying to access it. So this is an attempt to fix this by changing the EFI memory descriptor type into EFI_LOADER_DATA. This type is the same type used for the kernel data and for initramfs. In the secondary kernel we then handle the ELF core header data the same way as we handle the initramfs image. This patch contains the kernel changes to make this happen. Pretty straightforward, we reserve the area in reserve_memory(). The address for the area comes from the kernel command line and the size comes from the specialized EFI parsing function vmcore_find_descriptor_size(). The kexec-tools-testing code for this can be found here: http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/fastboot/2007-February/005983.html Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>		18 years ago
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configs	[IA64] update sn2_defconfig	19 years ago
dig	[PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.h	19 years ago
hp	[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 2	18 years ago
ia32	[IA64] sync compat getdents	18 years ago
kernel	[IA64] kexec: Use EFI_LOADER_DATA for ELF core header	18 years ago
lib	[IA64] always build arch/ia64/lib/xor.o	18 years ago
mm	[IA64] point saved_max_pfn to the max_pfn of the entire system	18 years ago
oprofile	Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>	19 years ago
pci	[IA64] replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc	18 years ago
scripts	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
sn	[PATCH] irq: Remove set_native_irq_info	18 years ago
Kconfig	ATA convert GSI to irq on ia64	18 years ago
Kconfig.debug	[PATCH] Move Kprobes and Oprofile to "Instrumentation Support" menu	20 years ago
Makefile	[IA64] add vmlinuz target	19 years ago
defconfig	[PATCH] sgiioc4: Always share IRQ	19 years ago
install.sh	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
module.lds	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago