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authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2008-10-22 23:57:26 -0400
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2008-10-23 00:11:07 -0400
commit057316cc6a5b521b332a1d7ccc871cd60c904c74 (patch)
tree4333e608da237c73ff69b10878025cca96dcb4c8 /arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
parent3e2dab9a1c2deb03c311eb3f83466009147ed4d3 (diff)
parent2515ddc6db8eb49a79f0fe5e67ff09ac7c81eab4 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into test
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c drivers/acpi/Kconfig drivers/pnp/Makefile drivers/pnp/quirks.c Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
index a323c9b32ee..97e05637972 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
#define DBG(fmt...)
#endif
+/* Stores the physical address of elf header of crash image. */
+unsigned long long elfcorehdr_addr = ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX;
+
void __init reserve_kdump_trampoline(void)
{
lmb_reserve(0, KDUMP_RESERVE_LIMIT);
@@ -66,7 +69,11 @@ void __init setup_kdump_trampoline(void)
DBG(" <- setup_kdump_trampoline()\n");
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE
+/*
+ * Note: elfcorehdr_addr is not just limited to vmcore. It is also used by
+ * is_kdump_kernel() to determine if we are booting after a panic. Hence
+ * ifdef it under CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP and not CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE.
+ */
static int __init parse_elfcorehdr(char *p)
{
if (p)
@@ -75,7 +82,6 @@ static int __init parse_elfcorehdr(char *p)
return 1;
}
__setup("elfcorehdr=", parse_elfcorehdr);
-#endif
static int __init parse_savemaxmem(char *p)
{