From: Ian Campbell Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 17:27:09 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [PATCH] i386: Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps X-Git-Tag: v2.6.22-rc1~1011^2~149 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=79e030114a8d97a1dcd593ab84fb986f8c91c536;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git [PATCH] i386: Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps The specific case I am encountering is kdump under Xen with a 64 bit hypervisor and 32 bit kernel/userspace. The dump created is 64 bit due to the hypervisor but the dump kernel is 32 bit for maximum compatibility. It's possibly less likely to be useful in a purely native scenario but I see no reason to disallow it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Cc: Horms Cc: Magnus Damm Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- diff --git a/fs/proc/vmcore.c b/fs/proc/vmcore.c index d96050728c4..523e1098ae8 100644 --- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c +++ b/fs/proc/vmcore.c @@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ static int __init parse_crash_elf64_headers(void) /* Do some basic Verification. */ if (memcmp(ehdr.e_ident, ELFMAG, SELFMAG) != 0 || (ehdr.e_type != ET_CORE) || - !elf_check_arch(&ehdr) || + !vmcore_elf_check_arch(&ehdr) || ehdr.e_ident[EI_CLASS] != ELFCLASS64 || ehdr.e_ident[EI_VERSION] != EV_CURRENT || ehdr.e_version != EV_CURRENT || diff --git a/include/asm-i386/kexec.h b/include/asm-i386/kexec.h index c5b4ab95bdc..bcb5b21de2d 100644 --- a/include/asm-i386/kexec.h +++ b/include/asm-i386/kexec.h @@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ /* The native architecture */ #define KEXEC_ARCH KEXEC_ARCH_386 +/* We can also handle crash dumps from 64 bit kernel. */ +#define vmcore_elf_check_arch_cross(x) ((x)->e_machine == EM_X86_64) + #define MAX_NOTE_BYTES 1024 /* CPU does not save ss and esp on stack if execution is already diff --git a/include/linux/crash_dump.h b/include/linux/crash_dump.h index 32503657f14..22c7ac5cd80 100644 --- a/include/linux/crash_dump.h +++ b/include/linux/crash_dump.h @@ -14,5 +14,13 @@ extern ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long, char *, size_t, extern const struct file_operations proc_vmcore_operations; extern struct proc_dir_entry *proc_vmcore; +/* Architecture code defines this if there are other possible ELF + * machine types, e.g. on bi-arch capable hardware. */ +#ifndef vmcore_elf_check_arch_cross +#define vmcore_elf_check_arch_cross(x) 0 +#endif + +#define vmcore_elf_check_arch(x) (elf_check_arch(x) || vmcore_elf_check_arch_cross(x)) + #endif /* CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP */ #endif /* LINUX_CRASHDUMP_H */