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Author SHA1 Message Date
Magnus Damm
4bfaaef01a [PATCH] Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V4, x86_64)
kexec: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V4, x86_64)

This patch upgrades the x86_64-specific kexec code to avoid overwriting the
current pgd. Overwriting the current pgd is bad when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is used
to start a secondary kernel that dumps the memory of the previous kernel.

The code introduces a new set of page tables. These tables are used to provide
an executable identity mapping without overwriting the current pgd.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman
5234f5eb04 [PATCH] kexec: x86_64 kexec implementation
This is the x86_64 implementation of machine kexec.  32bit compatibility
support has been implemented, and machine_kexec has been enhanced to not care
about the changing internal kernel paget table structures.

From: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@dsv.su.se>

      build fix

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:24:50 -07:00