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| author | Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> | 2010-05-25 00:38:26 -0600 |
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| committer | Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> | 2010-05-25 00:38:26 -0600 |
| commit | b1e50ebcf24668e57f058deb48b0704b5391ed0f (patch) | |
| tree | 17e1b69b249d0738317b732186340c9dd053f1a1 /arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c | |
| parent | 0c2a2ae32793e3500a15a449612485f5d17dd431 (diff) | |
| parent | 7e125f7b9cbfce4101191b8076d606c517a73066 (diff) | |
Merge remote branch 'origin' into secretlab/next-spi
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c b/arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c index 95d21625556..37c97d44457 100644 --- a/arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c +++ b/arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c @@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ * Created by: Hariprasad Nellitheertha (hari@in.ibm.com) * Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 2004. All rights reserved */ - #include <linux/errno.h> #include <linux/crash_dump.h> #include <linux/io.h> @@ -13,6 +12,25 @@ /* Stores the physical address of elf header of crash image. */ unsigned long long elfcorehdr_addr = ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX; +/* + * 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. + * + * elfcorehdr= specifies the location of elf core header + * stored by the crashed kernel. + */ +static int __init parse_elfcorehdr(char *arg) +{ + if (!arg) + return -EINVAL; + + elfcorehdr_addr = memparse(arg, &arg); + + return 0; +} +early_param("elfcorehdr", parse_elfcorehdr); + /** * copy_oldmem_page - copy one page from "oldmem" * @pfn: page frame number to be copied |