fadump: Register for firmware assisted dump.
On 2012-02-20 11:02:51 Mon, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:44:30PM +0530, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote:
>
> If I have read the code correctly, we are going to get this printk on
> non-pSeries machines or on older pSeries machines, even if the user
> has not put the fadump=on option on the kernel command line. The
> printk will be annoying since there is no actual error condition. It
> seems to me that the condition for the printk should include
> fw_dump.fadump_enabled. In other words you should probably add
>
> if (!fw_dump.fadump_enabled)
> return 0;
>
> at the beginning of the function.
Hi Paul,
Thanks for pointing it out. Please find the updated patch below.
The existing patches above this (4/10 through 10/10) cleanly applies
on this update.
Thanks,
-Mahesh.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
index 2d28218..b534bba 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
#include <asm/spu.h>
#include <asm/udbg.h>
#include <asm/code-patching.h>
+#include <asm/fadump.h>
#ifdef DEBUG
#define DBG(fmt...) udbg_printf(fmt)
@@ -625,6 +626,16 @@
/* Using a hypervisor which owns the htab */
htab_address = NULL;
_SDR1 = 0;
+#ifdef CONFIG_FA_DUMP
+ /*
+ * If firmware assisted dump is active firmware preserves
+ * the contents of htab along with entire partition memory.
+ * Clear the htab if firmware assisted dump is active so
+ * that we dont end up using old mappings.
+ */
+ if (is_fadump_active() && ppc_md.hpte_clear_all)
+ ppc_md.hpte_clear_all();
+#endif
} else {
/* Find storage for the HPT. Must be contiguous in
* the absolute address space. On cell we want it to be