linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH v4 09/10] fadump: Invalidate the fadump registration during machine shutdown.

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Message-ID: <20111107095624.1997.39099.stgit@mars.in.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:26:24 +0530
From:	Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>,
	Ananth Narayan <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>,
	Haren Myneni <hbabu@...ibm.com>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH v4 09/10] fadump: Invalidate the fadump registration
	during machine shutdown.

From: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

If dump is active during system reboot, shutdown or halt then invalidate
the fadump registration as it does not get invalidated automatically.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
index ce35aaf..67e5caa 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
@@ -110,6 +110,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ppc_do_canonicalize_irqs);
 /* also used by kexec */
 void machine_shutdown(void)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_FA_DUMP
+	/*
+	 * if fadump is active, cleanup the fadump registration before we
+	 * shutdown.
+	 */
+	fadump_cleanup();
+#endif
+
 	if (ppc_md.machine_shutdown)
 		ppc_md.machine_shutdown();
 }

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