user/sven/linux.git/kernel/kexec.c, branch v4.1.41

kexec: allocate the kexec control page with KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_GFP

2015-04-23T14:52:01Z

Introduce KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_GFP to allow the architecture code to override the gfp flags of the allocation for the kexec control page. The loop in kimage_alloc_normal_control_pages allocates pages with GFP_KERNEL until a page is found that happens to have an address smaller than the KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT. On systems with a large memory size but a small KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT the loop will keep allocating memory until the oom killer steps in. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

kexec: simplify conditional

2015-02-17T22:34:51Z

Simplify the code around one of the conditionals in the kexec_load syscall routine. The original code was confusing with a redundant check on KEXEC_ON_CRASH and comments outside of the conditional block. This change switches the order of the conditional check, and cleans up the comments for the conditional. There is no functional change to the code. Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Maximilian Attems Cc: Michal Marek Cc: Paul Bolle Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kexec: fix a typo in comment

2015-02-17T22:34:51Z

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kexec: remove never used member destination in kimage

2015-02-17T22:34:51Z

struct kimage has a member destination which is used to store the real destination address of each page when load segment from user space buffer to kernel. But we never retrieve the value stored in kimage->destination, so this member variable in kimage and its assignment operation are redundent code. I guess for_each_kimage_entry just does the work that kimage->destination is expected to do. So in this patch just make a cleanup to remove it. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2015-02-11T02:57:15Z

Pull trivial tree changes from Jiri Kosina: "Patches from trivial.git that keep the world turning around. Mostly documentation and comment fixes, and a two corner-case code fixes from Alan Cox" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: kexec, Kconfig: spell "architecture" properly mm: fix cleancache debugfs directory path blackfin: mach-common: ints-priority: remove unused function doubletalk: probe failure causes OOPS ARM: cache-l2x0.c: Make it clear that cache-l2x0 handles L310 cache controller msdos_fs.h: fix 'fields' in comment scsi: aic7xxx: fix comment ARM: l2c: fix comment ibmraid: fix writeable attribute with no store method dynamic_debug: fix comment doc: usbmon: fix spelling s/unpriviledged/unprivileged/ x86: init_mem_mapping(): use capital BIOS in comment

kexec, Kconfig: spell "architecture" properly

2015-01-26T13:36:46Z

Grepping for "archicture" showed it actually twice! Most unusual spelling error, very interesting. :) Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

kexec: remove unnecessary KERN_ERR from kexec.c

2014-12-13T20:42:51Z

Remove unnecessary KERN_ERR from pr_err() within kexec.c. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kexec: remove the unused function parameter

2014-10-14T00:18:21Z

This is a cleanup. In function parse_crashkernel_suffix, the parameter crash_base is not used. So here remove it. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Cc: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kexec: take the segment adding out of locate_mem_hole functions

2014-10-14T00:18:21Z

In locate_mem_hole functions, a memory hole is located and added as kexec_segment. But from the name of locate_mem_hole, it should only take responsibility of searching a available memory hole to contain data of a specified size. So in this patch add a new field 'mem' into kexec_buf, then take that kexec segment adding code out of locate_mem_hole_top_down and locate_mem_hole_bottom_up. This make clear of the functionality of locate_mem_hole just like it declars to do. And by this locate_mem_hole_callback chould be used later if anyone want to locate a memory hole for other use. Meanwhile Vivek suggested opening code function __kexec_add_segment(), that way we have to retreive ksegment pointer once and it is easy to read. So just do it in this patch and remove __kexec_add_segment() since no one use it anymore. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Cc: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kexec: create a new config option CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE for new syscall

2014-08-29T23:28:16Z

Currently new system call kexec_file_load() and all the associated code compiles if CONFIG_KEXEC=y. But new syscall also compiles purgatory code which currently uses gcc option -mcmodel=large. This option seems to be available only gcc 4.4 onwards. Hiding new functionality behind a new config option will not break existing users of old gcc. Those who wish to enable new functionality will require new gcc. Having said that, I am trying to figure out how can I move away from using -mcmodel=large but that can take a while. I think there are other advantages of introducing this new config option. As this option will be enabled only on x86_64, other arches don't have to compile generic kexec code which will never be used. This new code selects CRYPTO=y and CRYPTO_SHA256=y. And all other arches had to do this for CONFIG_KEXEC. Now with introduction of new config option, we can remove crypto dependency from other arches. Now CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE is available only on x86_64. So whereever I had CONFIG_X86_64 defined, I got rid of that. For CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE, instead of doing select CRYPTO=y, I changed it to "depends on CRYPTO=y". This should be safer as "select" is not recursive. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: H. Peter Anvin Tested-by: Shaun Ruffell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds