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Author SHA1 Message Date
Sachin P. Sant
e269d269e0 [POWERPC] kdump: Support kernels having 64k page size.
This is required to generate proper core files using kdump on ppc64.

Create a backup region of 64K size irrespective of the PAGE SIZE.
At present 32K was used as backup size. In the case of 64K page size,
second PT_LOAD segments starts at 32K and the first one is not page
aligned.  __ioremap() (crash_dump.c) fails if pfn = 0 which is the
case for the second PT_LOAD segment. This is not an issue for 4K page
size because the the first page (32K backup) is copied to second
kernel memory and thus referencing with the second kernel pfn.

Signed-off-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-13 18:30:04 +10:00
Haren Myneni
5f50867b4f [POWERPC] kdump: Reserve the existing TCE mappings left by the first kernel
During kdump boot, noticed some machines checkstop on dma protection
fault for ongoing DMA left in the first kernel. Instead of initializing
TCE entries in iommu_init() for the kdump boot, this patch fixes this
issue by walking through the each TCE table and checks whether the
entries are in use by the first kernel. If so, reserve those entries by
setting the corresponding bit in tbl->it_map such that these entries
will not be available for the kdump boot.

However it could be possible that all TCE entries might be used up due
to the driver bug that does continuous mapping. My observation is around
1700 TCE  entries are used on some systems (Ex: P4) at some point of
time during kdump boot and saving dump (either write into the disk or
sending to remote machine). Hence, this patch will make sure that
minimum of 2048 entries will be available such that kdump boot could be
successful in some cases.

Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-28 11:59:46 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
473104134b [PATCH] powerpc: Kdump header cleanup
We need to know the base address of the kdump kernel even when we're not a
kdump kernel, so add a #define for it. Move the logic that sets the kdump
kernelbase into kdump.h instead of page.h.

Rename kdump_setup() to setup_kdump_trampoline() to make it clearer what it's
doing, and add an empty definition for the !CRASH_DUMP case to avoid a

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-05-19 15:02:16 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
0cc4746cad [PATCH] powerpc: Reroute interrupts from 0 + offset to PHYSICAL_START + offset
Regardless of where the kernel's linked we always get interrupts at low
addresses. This patch creates a trampoline in the first 3 pages of memory,
where interrupts land, and patches those addresses to jump into the real
kernel code at PHYSICAL_START.

We also need to reserve the trampoline code and a bit more in prom.c

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 14:52:21 +11:00