linux/arch/powerpc
Mahesh Salgaonkar eb39c8803d fadump: Reserve the memory for firmware assisted dump.
Reserve the memory during early boot to preserve CPU state data, HPTE region
and RMA (real mode area) region data in case of kernel crash. At the time of
crash, powerpc firmware will store CPU state data, HPTE region data and move
RMA region data to the reserved memory area.

If the firmware-assisted dump fails to reserve the memory, then fallback
to existing kexec-based kdump.

Most of the code implementation to reserve memory has been
adapted from phyp assisted dump implementation written by Linas Vepstas
and Manish Ahuja

This patch also introduces a config option CONFIG_FA_DUMP for firmware
assisted dump feature on Powerpc (ppc64) architecture.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-02-23 10:50:01 +11:00
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boot powerpc/mpic: Add "last-interrupt-source" property to override hardware 2012-02-23 10:50:00 +11:00
configs powerpc: Remove legacy iSeries from ppc64_defconfig 2012-02-16 16:15:08 +11:00
include/asm fadump: Reserve the memory for firmware assisted dump. 2012-02-23 10:50:01 +11:00
kernel fadump: Reserve the memory for firmware assisted dump. 2012-02-23 10:50:01 +11:00
kvm Merge branch 'kvm-updates/3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2012-01-10 09:57:11 -08:00
lib powerpc: POWER7 optimised copy_to_user/copy_from_user using VMX 2011-12-19 14:40:40 +11:00
math-emu powerpc/math_emu/efp: Look for errata handler when type mismatches 2011-10-06 23:36:47 -05:00
mm cpumask: update setup_node_to_cpumask_map() comments 2012-01-12 20:13:11 -08:00
net net: filter: BPF 'JIT' compiler for PPC64 2011-07-21 12:38:32 -07:00
oprofile powerpc/oprofile: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing 2011-05-26 13:38:57 +10:00
platforms powerpc/mpic: Remove duplicate MPIC_WANTS_RESET flag 2012-02-23 10:50:00 +11:00
sysdev powerpc/mpic: Remove duplicate MPIC_WANTS_RESET flag 2012-02-23 10:50:00 +11:00
xmon powerpc/xmon: Fix #if typo for systems without MSR[RI] 2011-11-25 14:11:28 +11:00
Kconfig fadump: Reserve the memory for firmware assisted dump. 2012-02-23 10:50:01 +11:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc: Implement CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM 2011-11-28 11:42:08 +11:00
Makefile powerpc: Process dynamic relocations for kernel 2011-12-20 10:21:08 -05:00
relocs_check.pl powerpc: Process dynamic relocations for kernel 2011-12-20 10:21:08 -05:00