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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/Kconfig | 41 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/trampoline.S | 5 |
4 files changed, 49 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig index 0d67a0a1151..0dfee812811 100644 --- a/arch/i386/Kconfig +++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig @@ -777,6 +777,47 @@ config CRASH_DUMP PHYSICAL_START. For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt +config PHYSICAL_START + hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP) + default "0x100000" + help + This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. + + If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then + bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and + run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where + it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical + address. + + In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option + as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image + (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different + address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want + to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a + vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs + to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area + (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. + + So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, leave + the value here unchanged to 0x100000 and set CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. + Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux for capturing the crash dump + change this value to start of the reserved region (Typically 16MB + 0x1000000). In other words, it can be set based on the "X" value as + specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" command line boot parameter + passed to the panic-ed kernel. Typically this parameter is set as + crashkernel=64M@16M. Please take a look at + Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for more details about crash dumps. + + Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as + one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used + as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have + gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it + is present because there are users out there who continue to use + vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the + line. + + Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. + config RELOCATABLE bool "Build a relocatable kernel(EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c index 1b34c56f812..8689d62abd4 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static struct cpu_dev __cpuinitdata default_cpu = { .c_init = default_init, .c_vendor = "Unknown", }; -static struct cpu_dev * this_cpu = &default_cpu; +static struct cpu_dev * this_cpu __cpuinitdata = &default_cpu; static int __init cachesize_setup(char *str) { diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c index aef39be8136..300d9b38d02 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ static struct { atomic_t count_start; atomic_t count_stop; unsigned long long values[NR_CPUS]; -} tsc __initdata = { +} tsc __cpuinitdata = { .start_flag = ATOMIC_INIT(0), .count_start = ATOMIC_INIT(0), .count_stop = ATOMIC_INIT(0), @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ static void __init synchronize_tsc_bp(void) printk("passed.\n"); } -static void __init synchronize_tsc_ap(void) +static void __cpuinit synchronize_tsc_ap(void) { int i; diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/trampoline.S b/arch/i386/kernel/trampoline.S index fcce0e61b0e..2f1814c5cfd 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/trampoline.S +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/trampoline.S @@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ .data +/* We can free up trampoline after bootup if cpu hotplug is not supported. */ +#ifndef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU +.section ".init.data","aw",@progbits +#endif + .code16 ENTRY(trampoline_data) |