X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=kernel%2Fcrash_dump.c;h=69ebf3380bac362afc73904be855dc87abdb52ee;hb=3f8ddb032afa729d4bad1bf2965d3ec068de6b72;hp=5f85690285d489543bf3b447d788f2ca09790d8b;hpb=61df611d5ed32ff785d1e4a0abc871b42a905c1e;p=karo-tx-linux.git

diff --git a/kernel/crash_dump.c b/kernel/crash_dump.c
index 5f85690285d4..69ebf3380bac 100644
--- a/kernel/crash_dump.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_dump.c
@@ -19,9 +19,16 @@ unsigned long saved_max_pfn;
  */
 unsigned long long elfcorehdr_addr = ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX;
 
+/*
+ * stores the size of elf header of crash image
+ */
+unsigned long long elfcorehdr_size;
+
 /*
  * elfcorehdr= specifies the location of elf core header stored by the crashed
  * kernel. This option will be passed by kexec loader to the capture kernel.
+ *
+ * Syntax: elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG]
  */
 static int __init setup_elfcorehdr(char *arg)
 {
@@ -29,6 +36,10 @@ static int __init setup_elfcorehdr(char *arg)
 	if (!arg)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	elfcorehdr_addr = memparse(arg, &end);
+	if (*end == '@') {
+		elfcorehdr_size = elfcorehdr_addr;
+		elfcorehdr_addr = memparse(end + 1, &end);
+	}
 	return end > arg ? 0 : -EINVAL;
 }
 early_param("elfcorehdr", setup_elfcorehdr);