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# 7ad4d1f6 04-Dec-2024 David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>

fs/proc/vmcore: introduce PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_RAM to detect device RAM ranges in 2nd kernel

s390 allocates+prepares the elfcore hdr in the dump (2nd) kernel, not in
the crashed kernel.

RAM provided

fs/proc/vmcore: introduce PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_RAM to detect device RAM ranges in 2nd kernel

s390 allocates+prepares the elfcore hdr in the dump (2nd) kernel, not in
the crashed kernel.

RAM provided by memory devices such as virtio-mem can only be detected
using the device driver; when vmcore_init() is called, these device
drivers are usually not loaded yet, or the devices did not get probed
yet. Consequently, on s390 these RAM ranges will not be included in
the crash dump, which makes the dump partially corrupt and is
unfortunate.

Instead of deferring the vmcore_init() call, to an (unclear?) later point,
let's reuse the vmcore_cb infrastructure to obtain device RAM ranges as
the device drivers probe the device and get access to this information.

Then, we'll add these ranges to the vmcore, adding more PT_LOAD
entries and updating the offsets+vmcore size.

Use a separate Kconfig option to be set by an architecture to include this
code only if the arch really needs it. Further, we'll make the config
depend on the relevant drivers (i.e., virtio_mem) once they implement
support (next). The alternative of having a PROVIDE_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_RAM
config option was dropped for now for simplicity.

The current target use case is s390, which only creates an elf64
elfcore, so focusing on elf64 is sufficient.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>

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# e29e9aca 04-Dec-2024 David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>

fs/proc/vmcore: factor out freeing a list of vmcore ranges

Let's factor it out into include/linux/crash_dump.h, from where we can
use it also outside of vmcore.c later.

Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@re

fs/proc/vmcore: factor out freeing a list of vmcore ranges

Let's factor it out into include/linux/crash_dump.h, from where we can
use it also outside of vmcore.c later.

Acked-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>

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# e017b1f4 04-Dec-2024 David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>

fs/proc/vmcore: factor out allocating a vmcore range and adding it to a list

Let's factor it out into include/linux/crash_dump.h, from where we can
use it also outside of vmcore.c later.

Acked-by:

fs/proc/vmcore: factor out allocating a vmcore range and adding it to a list

Let's factor it out into include/linux/crash_dump.h, from where we can
use it also outside of vmcore.c later.

Acked-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>

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# 819403c8 04-Dec-2024 David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>

fs/proc/vmcore: move vmcore definitions out of kcore.h

These vmcore defines are not related to /proc/kcore, move them out.

We'll move "struct vmcoredd_node" to vmcore.c, because it is only used
int

fs/proc/vmcore: move vmcore definitions out of kcore.h

These vmcore defines are not related to /proc/kcore, move them out.

We'll move "struct vmcoredd_node" to vmcore.c, because it is only used
internally. While "struct vmcore" is only used internally for now,
we're planning on using it from inline functions in crash_dump.h next,
so move it to crash_dump.h.

While at it, rename "struct vmcore" to "struct vmcore_range", which is a
more suitable name and will make the usage of it outside of vmcore.c
clearer.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v6.13-rc1, v6.12, v6.12-rc7, v6.12-rc6, v6.12-rc5, v6.12-rc4, v6.12-rc3, v6.12-rc2, v6.12-rc1, v6.11, v6.11-rc7, v6.11-rc6, v6.11-rc5, v6.11-rc4, v6.11-rc3, v6.11-rc2, v6.11-rc1, v6.10, v6.10-rc7, v6.10-rc6, v6.10-rc5, v6.10-rc4, v6.10-rc3, v6.10-rc2, v6.10-rc1, v6.9, v6.9-rc7, v6.9-rc6, v6.9-rc5, v6.9-rc4, v6.9-rc3, v6.9-rc2, v6.9-rc1, v6.8, v6.8-rc7, v6.8-rc6, v6.8-rc5, v6.8-rc4, v6.8-rc3, v6.8-rc2, v6.8-rc1, v6.7, v6.7-rc8, v6.7-rc7, v6.7-rc6, v6.7-rc5, v6.7-rc4, v6.7-rc3, v6.7-rc2, v6.7-rc1, v6.6, v6.6-rc7, v6.6-rc6, v6.6-rc5, v6.6-rc4, v6.6-rc3, v6.6-rc2
# 86328b33 12-Sep-2023 Hari Bathini <[email protected]>

vmcore: remove dependency with is_kdump_kernel() for exporting vmcore

Currently, is_kdump_kernel() returns true when elfcorehdr_addr is set.
While elfcorehdr_addr is set for kexec based kernel dump

vmcore: remove dependency with is_kdump_kernel() for exporting vmcore

Currently, is_kdump_kernel() returns true when elfcorehdr_addr is set.
While elfcorehdr_addr is set for kexec based kernel dump mechanism,
alternate dump capturing methods like fadump [1] also set it to export
the vmcore. Since, is_kdump_kernel() is used to restrict resources in
crash dump capture kernel and such restrictions may not be desirable
for fadump, allow is_kdump_kernel() to be defined differently for such
scenarios. With this, is_kdump_kernel() could be false while vmcore is
usable. So, remove unnecessary dependency with is_kdump_kernel(), for
exporting vmcore.

[1] https://docs.kernel.org/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.html

Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Link: https://msgid.link/[email protected]

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Revision tags: v6.6-rc1, v6.5, v6.5-rc7, v6.5-rc6, v6.5-rc5, v6.5-rc4, v6.5-rc3, v6.5-rc2, v6.5-rc1, v6.4, v6.4-rc7, v6.4-rc6, v6.4-rc5, v6.4-rc4, v6.4-rc3, v6.4-rc2, v6.4-rc1, v6.3, v6.3-rc7, v6.3-rc6, v6.3-rc5, v6.3-rc4, v6.3-rc3, v6.3-rc2, v6.3-rc1, v6.2, v6.2-rc8, v6.2-rc7, v6.2-rc6, v6.2-rc5, v6.2-rc4, v6.2-rc3, v6.2-rc2, v6.2-rc1, v6.1, v6.1-rc8, v6.1-rc7, v6.1-rc6, v6.1-rc5, v6.1-rc4, v6.1-rc3, v6.1-rc2, v6.1-rc1, v6.0, v6.0-rc7, v6.0-rc6, v6.0-rc5, v6.0-rc4, v6.0-rc3, v6.0-rc2, v6.0-rc1, v5.19, v5.19-rc8, v5.19-rc7, v5.19-rc6, v5.19-rc5, v5.19-rc4, v5.19-rc3, v5.19-rc2, v5.19-rc1, v5.18, v5.18-rc7, v5.18-rc6, v5.18-rc5
# e0690479 29-Apr-2022 Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>

vmcore: convert read_from_oldmem() to take an iov_iter

Remove the read_from_oldmem() wrapper introduced earlier and convert all
the remaining callers to pass an iov_iter.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.

vmcore: convert read_from_oldmem() to take an iov_iter

Remove the read_from_oldmem() wrapper introduced earlier and convert all
the remaining callers to pass an iov_iter.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Tiezhu Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: Amit Daniel Kachhap <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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# 5d8de293 29-Apr-2022 Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>

vmcore: convert copy_oldmem_page() to take an iov_iter

Patch series "Convert vmcore to use an iov_iter", v5.

For some reason several people have been sending bad patches to fix
compiler warnings in

vmcore: convert copy_oldmem_page() to take an iov_iter

Patch series "Convert vmcore to use an iov_iter", v5.

For some reason several people have been sending bad patches to fix
compiler warnings in vmcore recently. Here's how it should be done.
Compile-tested only on x86. As noted in the first patch, s390 should take
this conversion a bit further, but I'm not inclined to do that work
myself.


This patch (of 3):

Instead of passing in a 'buf' and 'userbuf' argument, pass in an iov_iter.
s390 needs more work to pass the iov_iter down further, or refactor, but
I'd be more comfortable if someone who can test on s390 did that work.

It's more convenient to convert the whole of read_from_oldmem() to take an
iov_iter at the same time, so rename it to read_from_oldmem_iter() and add
a temporary read_from_oldmem() wrapper that creates an iov_iter.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.18-rc4, v5.18-rc3, v5.18-rc2, v5.18-rc1, v5.17, v5.17-rc8, v5.17-rc7, v5.17-rc6, v5.17-rc5, v5.17-rc4, v5.17-rc3, v5.17-rc2, v5.17-rc1, v5.16, v5.16-rc8, v5.16-rc7, v5.16-rc6, v5.16-rc5, v5.16-rc4, v5.16-rc3, v5.16-rc2, v5.16-rc1
# a10677a0 09-Nov-2021 Ye Guojin <[email protected]>

crash_dump: remove duplicate include in crash_dump.h

In crash_dump.h, header file <linux/pgtable.h> is included twice. This
duplication was introduced in commit 65fddcfca8ad("mm: reorder includes
a

crash_dump: remove duplicate include in crash_dump.h

In crash_dump.h, header file <linux/pgtable.h> is included twice. This
duplication was introduced in commit 65fddcfca8ad("mm: reorder includes
after introduction of linux/pgtable.h") where the order of the header
files is adjusted, while the old one was not removed.

Clean it up here.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ye Guojin <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Zeal Robot <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Young <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
Cc: Changcheng Deng <[email protected]>
Cc: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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# 5605f419 09-Nov-2021 Changcheng Deng <[email protected]>

crash_dump: fix boolreturn.cocci warning

./include/linux/crash_dump.h: 119: 50-51: WARNING: return of 0/1 in
function 'is_kdump_kernel' with return type bool

Return statements in functions returnin

crash_dump: fix boolreturn.cocci warning

./include/linux/crash_dump.h: 119: 50-51: WARNING: return of 0/1 in
function 'is_kdump_kernel' with return type bool

Return statements in functions returning bool should use true/false
instead of 1/0.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Changcheng Deng <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Zeal Robot <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Young <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
Cc: Ye Guojin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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# cc5f2704 09-Nov-2021 David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>

proc/vmcore: convert oldmem_pfn_is_ram callback to more generic vmcore callbacks

Let's support multiple registered callbacks, making sure that
registering vmcore callbacks cannot fail. Make the cal

proc/vmcore: convert oldmem_pfn_is_ram callback to more generic vmcore callbacks

Let's support multiple registered callbacks, making sure that
registering vmcore callbacks cannot fail. Make the callback return a
bool instead of an int, handling how to deal with errors internally.
Drop unused HAVE_OLDMEM_PFN_IS_RAM.

We soon want to make use of this infrastructure from other drivers:
virtio-mem, registering one callback for each virtio-mem device, to
prevent reading unplugged virtio-mem memory.

Handle it via a generic vmcore_cb structure, prepared for future
extensions: for example, once we support virtio-mem on s390x where the
vmcore is completely constructed in the second kernel, we want to detect
and add plugged virtio-mem memory ranges to the vmcore in order for them
to get dumped properly.

Handle corner cases that are unexpected and shouldn't happen in sane
setups: registering a callback after the vmcore has already been opened
(warn only) and unregistering a callback after the vmcore has already been
opened (warn and essentially read only zeroes from that point on).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Young <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.15, v5.15-rc7, v5.15-rc6, v5.15-rc5, v5.15-rc4, v5.15-rc3, v5.15-rc2, v5.15-rc1, v5.14, v5.14-rc7, v5.14-rc6
# 33709413 11-Aug-2021 Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>

crash_dump: Make elfcorehdr address/size symbols always visible

Make the forward declarations of elfcorehdr_addr and elfcorehdr_size,
and the definitions of ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX and ELFCORE_ADDR_ERR alw

crash_dump: Make elfcorehdr address/size symbols always visible

Make the forward declarations of elfcorehdr_addr and elfcorehdr_size,
and the definitions of ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX and ELFCORE_ADDR_ERR always
available, like is done for phys_initrd_start and phys_initrd_size.
Code referring to these symbols can then just check for
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP), instead of requiring conditional
compilation using an #ifdef, thus preparing to increase compile
coverage.

Suggested-by: Rob Herring <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ba965ca613c0cc82c1ec2fe353ee34fb13b36474.1628670468.git.geert+renesas@glider.be

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Revision tags: v5.14-rc5, v5.14-rc4, v5.14-rc3, v5.14-rc2, v5.14-rc1, v5.13, v5.13-rc7, v5.13-rc6, v5.13-rc5, v5.13-rc4, v5.13-rc3, v5.13-rc2, v5.13-rc1, v5.12, v5.12-rc8, v5.12-rc7, v5.12-rc6, v5.12-rc5, v5.12-rc4, v5.12-rc3, v5.12-rc2, v5.12-rc1, v5.12-rc1-dontuse, v5.11, v5.11-rc7, v5.11-rc6, v5.11-rc5, v5.11-rc4, v5.11-rc3, v5.11-rc2, v5.11-rc1, v5.10, v5.10-rc7, v5.10-rc6, v5.10-rc5, v5.10-rc4, v5.10-rc3, v5.10-rc2, v5.10-rc1, v5.9, v5.9-rc8, v5.9-rc7, v5.9-rc6, v5.9-rc5, v5.9-rc4, v5.9-rc3, v5.9-rc2, v5.9-rc1, v5.8, v5.8-rc7, v5.8-rc6, v5.8-rc5, v5.8-rc4, v5.8-rc3, v5.8-rc2, v5.8-rc1
# 65fddcfc 09-Jun-2020 Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>

mm: reorder includes after introduction of linux/pgtable.h

The replacement of <asm/pgrable.h> with <linux/pgtable.h> made the include
of the latter in the middle of asm includes. Fix this up with t

mm: reorder includes after introduction of linux/pgtable.h

The replacement of <asm/pgrable.h> with <linux/pgtable.h> made the include
of the latter in the middle of asm includes. Fix this up with the aid of
the below script and manual adjustments here and there.

import sys
import re

if len(sys.argv) is not 3:
print "USAGE: %s <file> <header>" % (sys.argv[0])
sys.exit(1)

hdr_to_move="#include <linux/%s>" % sys.argv[2]
moved = False
in_hdrs = False

with open(sys.argv[1], "r") as f:
lines = f.readlines()
for _line in lines:
line = _line.rstrip('
')
if line == hdr_to_move:
continue
if line.startswith("#include <linux/"):
in_hdrs = True
elif not moved and in_hdrs:
moved = True
print hdr_to_move
print line

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Cain <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Zankel <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Cc: Greentime Hu <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <[email protected]>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <[email protected]>
Cc: Guo Ren <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Salter <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
Cc: Max Filippov <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Hu <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
Cc: Rich Felker <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Stafford Horne <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: Vincent Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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# ca5999fd 09-Jun-2020 Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>

mm: introduce include/linux/pgtable.h

The include/linux/pgtable.h is going to be the home of generic page table
manipulation functions.

Start with moving asm-generic/pgtable.h to include/linux/pgta

mm: introduce include/linux/pgtable.h

The include/linux/pgtable.h is going to be the home of generic page table
manipulation functions.

Start with moving asm-generic/pgtable.h to include/linux/pgtable.h and
make the latter include asm/pgtable.h.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Cain <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Zankel <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Cc: Greentime Hu <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <[email protected]>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <[email protected]>
Cc: Guo Ren <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Salter <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
Cc: Max Filippov <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Hu <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
Cc: Rich Felker <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Stafford Horne <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: Vincent Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.7, v5.7-rc7, v5.7-rc6, v5.7-rc5, v5.7-rc4, v5.7-rc3, v5.7-rc2, v5.7-rc1
# 4c5b566c 30-Mar-2020 Kairui Song <[email protected]>

crash_dump: Remove no longer used saved_max_pfn

saved_max_pfn was originally introduced in commit

92aa63a5a1bf ("[PATCH] kdump: Retrieve saved max pfn")

It used to make sure that the user does n

crash_dump: Remove no longer used saved_max_pfn

saved_max_pfn was originally introduced in commit

92aa63a5a1bf ("[PATCH] kdump: Retrieve saved max pfn")

It used to make sure that the user does not try to read the physical memory
beyond saved_max_pfn. But since commit

921d58c0e699 ("vmcore: remove saved_max_pfn check")

it's no longer used for the check. This variable doesn't have any users
anymore so just remove it.

[ bp: Drop the Calgary IOMMU reference from the commit message. ]

Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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Revision tags: v5.6, v5.6-rc7, v5.6-rc6, v5.6-rc5, v5.6-rc4, v5.6-rc3, v5.6-rc2, v5.6-rc1, v5.5, v5.5-rc7, v5.5-rc6, v5.5-rc5, v5.5-rc4, v5.5-rc3, v5.5-rc2, v5.5-rc1, v5.4, v5.4-rc8, v5.4-rc7, v5.4-rc6, v5.4-rc5, v5.4-rc4, v5.4-rc3, v5.4-rc2, v5.4-rc1, v5.3, v5.3-rc8, v5.3-rc7, v5.3-rc6, v5.3-rc5, v5.3-rc4
# ae7eb82a 06-Aug-2019 Thiago Jung Bauermann <[email protected]>

fs/core/vmcore: Move sev_active() reference to x86 arch code

Secure Encrypted Virtualization is an x86-specific feature, so it shouldn't
appear in generic kernel code because it forces non-x86 archi

fs/core/vmcore: Move sev_active() reference to x86 arch code

Secure Encrypted Virtualization is an x86-specific feature, so it shouldn't
appear in generic kernel code because it forces non-x86 architectures to
define the sev_active() function, which doesn't make a lot of sense.

To solve this problem, add an x86 elfcorehdr_read() function to override
the generic weak implementation. To do that, it's necessary to make
read_from_oldmem() public so that it can be used outside of vmcore.c.

Also, remove the export for sev_active() since it's only used in files that
won't be built as modules.

Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Lianbo Jiang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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Revision tags: v5.3-rc3, v5.3-rc2, v5.3-rc1, v5.2, v5.2-rc7, v5.2-rc6, v5.2-rc5, v5.2-rc4, v5.2-rc3, v5.2-rc2, v5.2-rc1, v5.1, v5.1-rc7, v5.1-rc6, v5.1-rc5, v5.1-rc4, v5.1-rc3, v5.1-rc2, v5.1-rc1, v5.0, v5.0-rc8, v5.0-rc7, v5.0-rc6, v5.0-rc5, v5.0-rc4, v5.0-rc3, v5.0-rc2, v5.0-rc1, v4.20, v4.20-rc7, v4.20-rc6, v4.20-rc5, v4.20-rc4, v4.20-rc3, v4.20-rc2, v4.20-rc1, v4.19, v4.19-rc8, v4.19-rc7, v4.19-rc6
# 992b649a 30-Sep-2018 Lianbo Jiang <[email protected]>

kdump, proc/vmcore: Enable kdumping encrypted memory with SME enabled

In the kdump kernel, the memory of the first kernel needs to be dumped
into the vmcore file.

If SME is enabled in the first ker

kdump, proc/vmcore: Enable kdumping encrypted memory with SME enabled

In the kdump kernel, the memory of the first kernel needs to be dumped
into the vmcore file.

If SME is enabled in the first kernel, the old memory has to be remapped
with the memory encryption mask in order to access it properly.

Split copy_oldmem_page() functionality to handle encrypted memory
properly.

[ bp: Heavily massage everything. ]

Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
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Revision tags: v4.19-rc5, v4.19-rc4, v4.19-rc3, v4.19-rc2, v4.19-rc1, v4.18, v4.18-rc8, v4.18-rc7, v4.18-rc6, v4.18-rc5, v4.18-rc4, v4.18-rc3, v4.18-rc2, v4.18-rc1, v4.17, v4.17-rc7, v4.17-rc6, v4.17-rc5, v4.17-rc4
# 2724273e 02-May-2018 Rahul Lakkireddy <[email protected]>

vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in second kernel

The sequence of actions done by device drivers to append their device
specific hardware/firmware logs to /proc/vmcore are as follows:

1. Du

vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in second kernel

The sequence of actions done by device drivers to append their device
specific hardware/firmware logs to /proc/vmcore are as follows:

1. During probe (before hardware is initialized), device drivers
register to the vmcore module (via vmcore_add_device_dump()), with
callback function, along with buffer size and log name needed for
firmware/hardware log collection.

2. vmcore module allocates the buffer with requested size. It adds
an Elf note and invokes the device driver's registered callback
function.

3. Device driver collects all hardware/firmware logs into the buffer
and returns control back to vmcore module.

Ensure that the device dump buffer size is always aligned to page size
so that it can be mmaped.

Also, rename alloc_elfnotes_buf() to vmcore_alloc_buf() to make it more
generic and reserve NT_VMCOREDD note type to indicate vmcore device
dump.

Suggested-by: Eric Biederman <[email protected]>.
Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Goudar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v4.17-rc3, v4.17-rc2, v4.17-rc1, v4.16, v4.16-rc7, v4.16-rc6, v4.16-rc5, v4.16-rc4, v4.16-rc3, v4.16-rc2, v4.16-rc1
# 2650cb0c 06-Feb-2018 Yaowei Bai <[email protected]>

crash_dump: is_kdump_kernel can be boolean

Make is_kdump_kernel return bool due to this particular function only
using either one or zero as its return value.

No functional change.

Link: http://lk

crash_dump: is_kdump_kernel can be boolean

Make is_kdump_kernel return bool due to this particular function only
using either one or zero as its return value.

No functional change.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v4.15, v4.15-rc9, v4.15-rc8, v4.15-rc7, v4.15-rc6, v4.15-rc5, v4.15-rc4, v4.15-rc3, v4.15-rc2, v4.15-rc1, v4.14, v4.14-rc8
# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v4.14-rc7, v4.14-rc6, v4.14-rc5, v4.14-rc4, v4.14-rc3, v4.14-rc2, v4.14-rc1, v4.13, v4.13-rc7, v4.13-rc6, v4.13-rc5, v4.13-rc4, v4.13-rc3, v4.13-rc2, v4.13-rc1, v4.12, v4.12-rc7, v4.12-rc6, v4.12-rc5, v4.12-rc4, v4.12-rc3, v4.12-rc2, v4.12-rc1, v4.11, v4.11-rc8, v4.11-rc7, v4.11-rc6, v4.11-rc5, v4.11-rc4, v4.11-rc3, v4.11-rc2, v4.11-rc1, v4.10, v4.10-rc8, v4.10-rc7, v4.10-rc6, v4.10-rc5, v4.10-rc4, v4.10-rc3, v4.10-rc2, v4.10-rc1, v4.9, v4.9-rc8, v4.9-rc7, v4.9-rc6, v4.9-rc5, v4.9-rc4, v4.9-rc3, v4.9-rc2, v4.9-rc1, v4.8, v4.8-rc8, v4.8-rc7, v4.8-rc6, v4.8-rc5, v4.8-rc4, v4.8-rc3, v4.8-rc2, v4.8-rc1, v4.7, v4.7-rc7, v4.7-rc6, v4.7-rc5, v4.7-rc4, v4.7-rc3, v4.7-rc2, v4.7-rc1, v4.6, v4.6-rc7, v4.6-rc6, v4.6-rc5, v4.6-rc4, v4.6-rc3, v4.6-rc2, v4.6-rc1, v4.5, v4.5-rc7, v4.5-rc6, v4.5-rc5, v4.5-rc4
# e55d5312 11-Feb-2016 Daniel Wagner <[email protected]>

crash_dump: Add vmcore_elf32_check_arch

parse_crash_elf{32|64}_headers will check the headers via the
elf_check_arch respectively vmcore_elf64_check_arch macro.

The MIPS architecture implements tho

crash_dump: Add vmcore_elf32_check_arch

parse_crash_elf{32|64}_headers will check the headers via the
elf_check_arch respectively vmcore_elf64_check_arch macro.

The MIPS architecture implements those two macros differently.
In order to make the differentiation more explicit, let's introduce
an vmcore_elf32_check_arch to allow the archs to overwrite it.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12535/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v4.5-rc3, v4.5-rc2, v4.5-rc1, v4.4, v4.4-rc8, v4.4-rc7, v4.4-rc6, v4.4-rc5, v4.4-rc4, v4.4-rc3, v4.4-rc2, v4.4-rc1, v4.3, v4.3-rc7, v4.3-rc6, v4.3-rc5, v4.3-rc4, v4.3-rc3, v4.3-rc2, v4.3-rc1, v4.2, v4.2-rc8, v4.2-rc7, v4.2-rc6, v4.2-rc5, v4.2-rc4, v4.2-rc3, v4.2-rc2, v4.2-rc1, v4.1, v4.1-rc8, v4.1-rc7, v4.1-rc6, v4.1-rc5, v4.1-rc4, v4.1-rc3, v4.1-rc2, v4.1-rc1, v4.0, v4.0-rc7, v4.0-rc6, v4.0-rc5, v4.0-rc4, v4.0-rc3, v4.0-rc2, v4.0-rc1, v3.19, v3.19-rc7, v3.19-rc6, v3.19-rc5, v3.19-rc4, v3.19-rc3, v3.19-rc2, v3.19-rc1, v3.18, v3.18-rc7, v3.18-rc6, v3.18-rc5, v3.18-rc4, v3.18-rc3, v3.18-rc2, v3.18-rc1
# 5ab03ac5 14-Oct-2014 Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>

vmcore: Remove "weak" from function declarations

For the following functions:

elfcorehdr_alloc()
elfcorehdr_free()
elfcorehdr_read()
elfcorehdr_read_notes()
remap_oldmem_pfn_range()

fs/p

vmcore: Remove "weak" from function declarations

For the following functions:

elfcorehdr_alloc()
elfcorehdr_free()
elfcorehdr_read()
elfcorehdr_read_notes()
remap_oldmem_pfn_range()

fs/proc/vmcore.c provides default definitions explicitly marked "weak".
arch/s390 provides its own definitions intended to override the default
ones, but the "weak" attribute on the declarations applied to the s390
definitions as well, so the linker chose one based on link order (see
10629d711ed7 ("PCI: Remove __weak annotation from pcibios_get_phb_of_node
decl")).

Remove the "weak" attribute from the declarations so we always prefer a
non-weak definition over the weak one, independent of link order.

Fixes: be8a8d069e50 ("vmcore: introduce ELF header in new memory feature")
Fixes: 9cb218131de1 ("vmcore: introduce remap_oldmem_pfn_range()")
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
CC: Michael Holzheu <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v3.17, v3.17-rc7, v3.17-rc6, v3.17-rc5, v3.17-rc4, v3.17-rc3, v3.17-rc2, v3.17-rc1, v3.16, v3.16-rc7, v3.16-rc6, v3.16-rc5, v3.16-rc4, v3.16-rc3, v3.16-rc2, v3.16-rc1, v3.15, v3.15-rc8, v3.15-rc7, v3.15-rc6, v3.15-rc5, v3.15-rc4, v3.15-rc3, v3.15-rc2, v3.15-rc1
# 82e0703b 07-Apr-2014 Rashika Kheria <[email protected]>

include/linux/crash_dump.h: add vmcore_cleanup() prototype

Eliminate the following warning in proc/vmcore.c:

fs/proc/vmcore.c:1088:6: warning: no previous prototype for `vmcore_cleanup' [-Wmissin

include/linux/crash_dump.h: add vmcore_cleanup() prototype

Eliminate the following warning in proc/vmcore.c:

fs/proc/vmcore.c:1088:6: warning: no previous prototype for `vmcore_cleanup' [-Wmissing-prototypes]

[[email protected]: clean up powerpc, remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL]
Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v3.14, v3.14-rc8, v3.14-rc7, v3.14-rc6, v3.14-rc5, v3.14-rc4, v3.14-rc3, v3.14-rc2, v3.14-rc1, v3.13
# 5a610fcc 15-Jan-2014 Qais Yousef <[email protected]>

crash_dump: fix compilation error (on MIPS at least)

In file included from kernel/crash_dump.c:2:0:
include/linux/crash_dump.h:22:27: error: unknown type name `pgprot_t'

when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=

crash_dump: fix compilation error (on MIPS at least)

In file included from kernel/crash_dump.c:2:0:
include/linux/crash_dump.h:22:27: error: unknown type name `pgprot_t'

when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y

The error was traced back to commit 9cb218131de1 ("vmcore: introduce
remap_oldmem_pfn_range()")

include <asm/pgtable.h> to get the missing definition

Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: James Hogan <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]> [3.12+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v3.13-rc8, v3.13-rc7, v3.13-rc6, v3.13-rc5, v3.13-rc4, v3.13-rc3, v3.13-rc2, v3.13-rc1, v3.12, v3.12-rc7, v3.12-rc6, v3.12-rc5, v3.12-rc4, v3.12-rc3, v3.12-rc2, v3.12-rc1
# 9cb21813 11-Sep-2013 Michael Holzheu <[email protected]>

vmcore: introduce remap_oldmem_pfn_range()

For zfcpdump we can't map the HSA storage because it is only available via
a read interface. Therefore, for the new vmcore mmap feature we have
introduce

vmcore: introduce remap_oldmem_pfn_range()

For zfcpdump we can't map the HSA storage because it is only available via
a read interface. Therefore, for the new vmcore mmap feature we have
introduce a new mechanism to create mappings on demand.

This patch introduces a new architecture function remap_oldmem_pfn_range()
that should be used to create mappings with remap_pfn_range() for oldmem
areas that can be directly mapped. For zfcpdump this is everything
besides of the HSA memory. For the areas that are not mapped by
remap_oldmem_pfn_range() a generic vmcore a new generic vmcore fault
handler mmap_vmcore_fault() is called.

This handler works as follows:

* Get already available or new page from page cache (find_or_create_page)
* Check if /proc/vmcore page is filled with data (PageUptodate)
* If yes:
Return that page
* If no:
Fill page using __vmcore_read(), set PageUptodate, and return page

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Willeke <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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# be8a8d06 11-Sep-2013 Michael Holzheu <[email protected]>

vmcore: introduce ELF header in new memory feature

For s390 we want to use /proc/vmcore for our SCSI stand-alone dump
(zfcpdump). We have support where the first HSA_SIZE bytes are saved into
a hyp

vmcore: introduce ELF header in new memory feature

For s390 we want to use /proc/vmcore for our SCSI stand-alone dump
(zfcpdump). We have support where the first HSA_SIZE bytes are saved into
a hypervisor owned memory area (HSA) before the kdump kernel is booted.
When the kdump kernel starts, it is restricted to use only HSA_SIZE bytes.

The advantages of this mechanism are:

* No crashkernel memory has to be defined in the old kernel.
* Early boot problems (before kexec_load has been done) can be dumped
* Non-Linux systems can be dumped.

We modify the s390 copy_oldmem_page() function to read from the HSA memory
if memory below HSA_SIZE bytes is requested.

Since we cannot use the kexec tool to load the kernel in this scenario,
we have to build the ELF header in the 2nd (kdump/new) kernel.

So with the following patch set we would like to introduce the new
function that the ELF header for /proc/vmcore can be created in the 2nd
kernel memory.

The following steps are done during zfcpdump execution:

1. Production system crashes
2. User boots a SCSI disk that has been prepared with the zfcpdump tool
3. Hypervisor saves CPU state of boot CPU and HSA_SIZE bytes of memory into HSA
4. Boot loader loads kernel into low memory area
5. Kernel boots and uses only HSA_SIZE bytes of memory
6. Kernel saves registers of non-boot CPUs
7. Kernel does memory detection for dump memory map
8. Kernel creates ELF header for /proc/vmcore
9. /proc/vmcore uses this header for initialization
10. The zfcpdump user space reads /proc/vmcore to write dump to SCSI disk
- copy_oldmem_page() copies from HSA for memory below HSA_SIZE
- copy_oldmem_page() copies from real memory for memory above HSA_SIZE

Currently for s390 we create the ELF core header in the 2nd kernel with a
small trick. We relocate the addresses in the ELF header in a way that
for the /proc/vmcore code it seems to be in the 1st kernel (old) memory
and the read_from_oldmem() returns the correct data. This allows the
/proc/vmcore code to use the ELF header in the 2nd kernel.

This patch:

Exchange the old mechanism with the new and much cleaner function call
override feature that now offcially allows to create the ELF core header
in the 2nd kernel.

To use the new feature the following function have to be defined
by the architecture backend code to read from new memory:

* elfcorehdr_alloc: Allocate ELF header
* elfcorehdr_free: Free the memory of the ELF header
* elfcorehdr_read: Read from ELF header
* elfcorehdr_read_notes: Read from ELF notes

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Willeke <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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