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[S390] kdump: Add infrastructure for unmapping crashkernel memory
authorMichael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:47:32 +0000 (11:47 +0200)
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:47:31 +0000 (11:47 +0200)
commit264cf6f0b1f76f11f3443736e0079d7c52fac637
treedb5982d8784b382d8f779f0253db8838dacc5a28
parentb6f0579e24848311bddd9d277f9c8e1454dd8d18
[S390] kdump: Add infrastructure for unmapping crashkernel memory

This patch introduces a mechanism that allows architecture backends to
remove page tables for the crashkernel memory. This can protect the loaded
kdump kernel from being overwritten by broken kernel code.  Two new
functions crash_map_reserved_pages() and crash_unmap_reserved_pages() are
added that can be implemented by architecture code.  The
crash_map_reserved_pages() function is called before and
crash_unmap_reserved_pages() after the crashkernel segments are loaded.  The
functions are also called in crash_shrink_memory() to create/remove page
tables when the crashkernel memory size is reduced.

To support architectures that have large pages this patch also introduces
a new define KEXEC_CRASH_MEM_ALIGN. The crashkernel start and size must
always be aligned with KEXEC_CRASH_MEM_ALIGN.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
include/linux/kexec.h
kernel/kexec.c