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authorMichael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-06-21 19:23:18 +0200
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2017-07-05 07:35:29 +0200
commitcd0ae1d395a8bfc208437ce612413e58f5137499 (patch)
tree401d02d6ba6a1409982419d5d3e21581d7bdd691 /include/linux/crash_core.h
parent792e0e002298df01df14c704bee045f3b3be0436 (diff)
s390/crash: Remove unused KEXEC_NOTE_BYTES
After commmit 692f66f26a4c19 ("crash: move crashkernel parsing and vmcore related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE") the KEXEC_NOTE_BYTES macro is not used anymore and for s390 we create the ELF header in the new kernel anyway. Therefore remove the macro. Reported-by: Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/crash_core.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/crash_core.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/crash_core.h b/include/linux/crash_core.h
index 541a197ba4a2..4090a42578a8 100644
--- a/include/linux/crash_core.h
+++ b/include/linux/crash_core.h
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@
#define CRASH_CORE_NOTE_NAME_BYTES ALIGN(sizeof(CRASH_CORE_NOTE_NAME), 4)
#define CRASH_CORE_NOTE_DESC_BYTES ALIGN(sizeof(struct elf_prstatus), 4)
+/*
+ * The per-cpu notes area is a list of notes terminated by a "NULL"
+ * note header. For kdump, the code in vmcore.c runs in the context
+ * of the second kernel to combine them into one note.
+ */
#define CRASH_CORE_NOTE_BYTES ((CRASH_CORE_NOTE_HEAD_BYTES * 2) + \
CRASH_CORE_NOTE_NAME_BYTES + \
CRASH_CORE_NOTE_DESC_BYTES)