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authorXunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>2017-07-12 14:33:14 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-12 16:25:59 -0700
commit203e9e41219b4e7357104e525e91ac609fba2c6c (patch)
treef7b0b4235857f20c11bf15d2e582d57f9f29a872 /arch/ia64
parent112166f88cf83dd11486cf1818672d42b540865b (diff)
kexec: move vmcoreinfo out of the kernel's .bss section
As Eric said, "what we need to do is move the variable vmcoreinfo_note out of the kernel's .bss section. And modify the code to regenerate and keep this information in something like the control page. Definitely something like this needs a page all to itself, and ideally far away from any other kernel data structures. I clearly was not watching closely the data someone decided to keep this silly thing in the kernel's .bss section." This patch allocates extra pages for these vmcoreinfo_XXX variables, one advantage is that it enhances some safety of vmcoreinfo, because vmcoreinfo now is kept far away from other kernel data structures. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493281021-20737-1-git-send-email-xlpang@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com> Tested-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Suggested-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ia64')
-rw-r--r--arch/ia64/kernel/machine_kexec.c5
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index 599507bcec91..c14815dca747 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -163,8 +163,3 @@ void arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
#endif
}
-phys_addr_t paddr_vmcoreinfo_note(void)
-{
- return ia64_tpa((unsigned long)(char *)&vmcoreinfo_note);
-}
-