linux-kernel - kdump, ia64: always reserve elfcore header memory in crash kernel

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Date:	Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:48:27 +1000
From:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To:	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: kdump, ia64: always reserve elfcore header memory in crash kernel

elfcore header memory needs to be reserved in a crash kernel.
This means that the relevant code should be protected
by CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP rather than CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>

--- 
Andrew, this patch fixes bug in the (unlikely) case where
an ia64 crashdump kernel does not have CONFIG_PROC_FS set.
I think it is worth including in 2.6.27. But breakage cases are
likely to be minimal to non-existent, so I am comfortable
with post 2.6.27 too.

This patch should be appended to the series,
"is_kdump_kernel() cleanup and related patches".

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2008-July/002270.html

Index: linux-2.6/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c	2008-08-05 18:31:13.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-2.6/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c	2008-08-05 18:31:21.000000000 +1000
@@ -1334,7 +1334,7 @@ kdump_find_rsvd_region (unsigned long si
 }
 #endif
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
 /* locate the size find a the descriptor at a certain address */
 unsigned long __init
 vmcore_find_descriptor_size (unsigned long address)
Index: linux-2.6/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c	2008-08-05 18:31:20.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-2.6/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c	2008-08-05 18:31:21.000000000 +1000
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ reserve_memory (void)
 	}
 #endif
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_KERNEL
 	if (reserve_elfcorehdr(&rsvd_region[n].start,
 			       &rsvd_region[n].end) == 0)
 		n++;
@@ -496,9 +496,7 @@ static int __init parse_elfcorehdr(char 
 	return 0;
 }
 early_param("elfcorehdr", parse_elfcorehdr);
-#endif
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE
 int __init reserve_elfcorehdr(unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end)
 {
 	unsigned long length;
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