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Hari Bathini 692f66f26a crash: move crashkernel parsing and vmcore related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE ... Patch series "kexec/fadump: remove dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC and reuse crashkernel parameter for fadump", v4. Traditionally, kdump is used to save vmcore in case of a crash. Some architectures like powerpc can save vmcore using architecture specific support instead of kexec/kdump mechanism. Such architecture specific support also needs to reserve memory, to be used by dump capture kernel. crashkernel parameter can be a reused, for memory reservation, by such architecture specific infrastructure. This patchset removes dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC for crashkernel parameter and vmcoreinfo related code as it can be reused without kexec support. Also, crashkernel parameter is reused instead of fadump_reserve_mem to reserve memory for fadump. The first patch moves crashkernel parameter parsing and vmcoreinfo related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE instead of CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE. The second patch reuses the definitions of append_elf_note() & final_note() functions under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE in IA64 arch code. The third patch removes dependency on CONFIG_KEXEC for firmware-assisted dump (fadump) in powerpc. The next patch reuses crashkernel parameter for reserving memory for fadump, instead of the fadump_reserve_mem parameter. This has the advantage of using all syntaxes crashkernel parameter supports, for fadump as well. The last patch updates fadump kernel documentation about use of crashkernel parameter. This patch (of 5): Traditionally, kdump is used to save vmcore in case of a crash. Some architectures like powerpc can save vmcore using architecture specific support instead of kexec/kdump mechanism. Such architecture specific support also needs to reserve memory, to be used by dump capture kernel. crashkernel parameter can be a reused, for memory reservation, by such architecture specific infrastructure. But currently, code related to vmcoreinfo and parsing of crashkernel parameter is built under CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE. This patch introduces CONFIG_CRASH_CORE and moves the above mentioned code under this config, allowing code reuse without dependency on CONFIG_KEXEC. There is no functional change with this patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149035338104.6881.4550894432615189948.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>		2017-05-08 17:15:11 -07:00
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bpf	bpf: enhance verifier to understand stack pointer arithmetic	2017-05-01 11:40:23 -04:00
cgroup	Merge branch 'for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup	2017-05-01 13:52:24 -07:00
configs	config: android-base: enable hardened usercopy and kernel ASLR	2017-02-27 18:43:46 -08:00
debug	sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/debug.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
events	Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes	2017-03-28 07:44:25 +02:00
gcov
irq	Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip	2017-05-01 15:46:13 -07:00
livepatch	Merge branches 'for-4.12/upstream' and 'for-4.12/klp-hybrid-consistency-model' into for-linus	2017-05-01 21:49:28 +02:00
locking	Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)	2017-05-03 17:55:59 -07:00
power	Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip	2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
printk	crash: move crashkernel parsing and vmcore related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE	2017-05-08 17:15:11 -07:00
rcu	rcu/tracing: Add rcu_disabled to denote when rcu_irq_enter() will not work	2017-04-10 15:22:03 -04:00
sched	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial	2017-05-02 19:09:35 -07:00
time	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace	2017-05-05 11:08:43 -07:00
trace	New features for this release:	2017-05-03 18:41:21 -07:00
.gitignore
acct.c	sched/headers: Prepare to move cputime functionality from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/cputime.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
async.c
audit.c	Merge branch 'stable-4.12' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit	2017-05-03 09:21:59 -07:00
audit.h	audit: Use timespec64 to represent audit timestamps	2017-05-02 10:16:05 -04:00
audit_fsnotify.c	Merge branch 'fsnotify' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs	2017-05-03 11:05:15 -07:00
audit_tree.c	Merge branch 'fsnotify' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs	2017-05-03 11:05:15 -07:00
audit_watch.c	Merge branch 'fsnotify' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs	2017-05-03 11:05:15 -07:00
auditfilter.c	audit: kernel generated netlink traffic should have a portid of 0	2017-05-02 10:16:05 -04:00
auditsc.c	Merge branch 'fsnotify' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs	2017-05-03 11:05:15 -07:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c	capability: export has_capability	2017-01-12 07:01:56 -07:00
compat.c	time: Change k_clock nsleep() to use timespec64	2017-04-14 21:49:56 +02:00
configs.c	Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally	2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
context_tracking.c
cpu.c	Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixes	2017-04-14 10:29:40 +02:00
cpu_pm.c
crash_core.c	crash: move crashkernel parsing and vmcore related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE	2017-05-08 17:15:11 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c	sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/coredump.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:28 +01:00
delayacct.c	sched/headers: Prepare to move cputime functionality from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/cputime.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c	userfaultfd: non-cooperative: rollback userfaultfd_exit	2017-03-09 17:01:09 -08:00
extable.c	Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next	2017-02-22 10:15:09 -08:00
fork.c	fork: free vmapped stacks in cache when cpus are offline	2017-05-08 17:15:11 -07:00
freezer.c
futex.c	futex: Clarify mark_wake_futex memory barrier usage	2017-04-15 16:03:46 +02:00
futex_compat.c	Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally	2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
groups.c	Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally	2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
hung_task.c	kernel/hung_task.c: defer showing held locks	2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
irq_work.c
jump_label.c	This release has no new tracing features, just clean ups, minor fixes	2017-02-27 13:26:17 -08:00
kallsyms.c	bpf: make jited programs visible in traces	2017-02-17 13:40:05 -05:00
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks	locking/mutex: Allow MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER when DEBUG_MUTEXES	2016-10-25 11:31:51 +02:00
Kconfig.preempt
kcov.c	kcov: make kcov work properly with KASLR enabled	2016-12-20 09:48:47 -08:00
kexec.c
kexec_core.c	crash: move crashkernel parsing and vmcore related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE	2017-05-08 17:15:11 -07:00
kexec_file.c	kexec, x86/purgatory: Unbreak it and clean it up	2017-03-10 20:55:09 +01:00
kexec_internal.h	kexec, x86/purgatory: Unbreak it and clean it up	2017-03-10 20:55:09 +01:00
kmod.c	sched/headers, vfs/execve: Prepare to move the do_execve*() prototypes from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/binfmts.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
kprobes.c	powerpc updates for 4.12 part 1.	2017-05-05 11:36:44 -07:00
ksysfs.c	crash: move crashkernel parsing and vmcore related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE	2017-05-08 17:15:11 -07:00
kthread.c	cgroup, kthread: close race window where new kthreads can be migrated to non-root cgroups	2017-03-17 10:18:47 -04:00
latencytop.c	sched/headers: Prepare to move sched_info_on() and force_schedstat_enabled() from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/stat.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
Makefile	crash: move crashkernel parsing and vmcore related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE	2017-05-08 17:15:11 -07:00
membarrier.c	Fix: Disable sys_membarrier when nohz_full is enabled	2017-01-23 11:32:16 -08:00
memremap.c	mm, zone_device: Replace {get, put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference to fix pmem crash	2017-05-01 09:15:53 +02:00
module-internal.h
module.c	Modules updates for v4.12	2017-05-03 19:12:27 -07:00
module_signing.c
notifier.c	kernel/notifier.c: simplify expression	2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
nsproxy.c	perf: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info	2017-03-13 15:57:41 -03:00
padata.c	padata: get_next is never NULL	2017-04-21 20:30:46 +08:00
panic.c	sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/debug.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
params.c	boot/param: Move next_arg() function to lib/cmdline.c for later reuse	2017-04-18 10:37:13 +02:00
pid.c	sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:35 +01:00
pid_namespace.c	sched/headers: Prepare for the reduction of <linux/sched.h>'s signal API dependency	2017-03-02 08:42:37 +01:00
profile.c	sched/headers: Prepare to move sched_info_on() and force_schedstat_enabled() from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/stat.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
ptrace.c	ptrace: fix PTRACE_LISTEN race corrupting task->state	2017-04-08 00:47:48 -07:00
range.c
reboot.c
relay.c	Merge branch 'work.splice' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs	2017-05-02 11:38:06 -07:00
resource.c
seccomp.c	sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task_stack.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:36 +01:00
signal.c	signal: Make kill_proc_info static	2017-04-21 22:46:25 -05:00
smp.c	sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/idle.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:26 +01:00
smpboot.c	sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:35 +01:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c	sched/core: Remove 'task' parameter and rename tsk_restore_flags() to current_restore_flags()	2017-04-11 09:06:32 +02:00
stacktrace.c	stacktrace/x86: add function for detecting reliable stack traces	2017-03-08 09:18:02 +01:00
stop_machine.c	locking/core, stop_machine: Yield the CPU during stop machine()	2016-11-16 10:15:09 +01:00
sys.c	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace	2017-05-05 11:08:43 -07:00
sys_ni.c	move aio compat to fs/aio.c	2016-12-22 22:58:37 -05:00
sysctl.c	proc/sysctl: fix the int overflow for jiffies conversion	2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
sysctl_binary.c	net: Remove NET_CORE_BUDGET_USECS from sysctl binary interface.	2017-04-21 15:59:52 -04:00
task_work.c
taskstats.c	Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net	2016-11-15 10:54:36 -05:00
test_kprobes.c
torture.c	sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/clock.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:27 +01:00
tracepoint.c	sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:35 +01:00
tsacct.c	sched/headers: Prepare to move cputime functionality from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/cputime.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
ucount.c	ucount: Remove the atomicity from ucount->count	2017-03-06 15:26:37 -06:00
uid16.c	sched/headers: Prepare to remove <linux/cred.h> inclusion from <linux/sched.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:31 +01:00
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c	sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/user.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:29 +01:00
user_namespace.c	sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/signal.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:29 +01:00
utsname.c	sched/headers: Prepare to move the task_lock()/unlock() APIs to <linux/sched/task.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
utsname_sysctl.c	sched/headers: Remove <linux/rwsem.h> from <linux/sched.h>	2017-03-03 01:45:36 +01:00
watchdog.c	sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/debug.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
watchdog_hld.c	sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/debug.h>	2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
workqueue.c	Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip	2017-05-01 19:12:53 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h