From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@iki.fi>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 08:29:32 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: ARM: 6122/1: kdump: add support for elfcorehdr parameter
X-Git-Tag: upstream/snapshot3+hdmi~13807^2~2^4
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cea0bb1bc59b94625e60b69aaa9ad6749d5b57dd;p=platform%2Fadaptation%2Frenesas_rcar%2Frenesas_kernel.git

ARM: 6122/1: kdump: add support for elfcorehdr parameter

This parameter is used by primary kernel to pass address of vmcore
header to the dump capture kernel.

Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <ext-mika.1.westerberg@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
---

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
index 714cbaa..2183bb8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <linux/screen_info.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/kexec.h>
+#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
 #include <linux/root_dev.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
@@ -730,6 +731,30 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
 static inline void reserve_crashkernel(void) {}
 #endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC */
 
+/*
+ * Note: elfcorehdr_addr is not just limited to vmcore. It is also used by
+ * is_kdump_kernel() to determine if we are booting after a panic. Hence
+ * ifdef it under CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP and not CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE.
+ */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
+/*
+ * 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.
+ */
+static int __init setup_elfcorehdr(char *arg)
+{
+	char *end;
+
+	if (!arg)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	elfcorehdr_addr = memparse(arg, &end);
+	return end > arg ? 0 : -EINVAL;
+}
+early_param("elfcorehdr", setup_elfcorehdr);
+#endif /* CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP */
+
 void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 {
 	struct tag *tags = (struct tag *)&init_tags;