[PATCH] kdump: export per cpu crash notes pointer through sysfs
- Kexec on panic functionality allocates memory for saving cpu registers in
case of system crash event. Address of this allocated memory needs to be
exported to user space, which is used by kexec-tools.
- Previously, a single /sys/kernel/crash_notes entry was being exported as
memory allocated was a single continuous array. Now memory allocation being
dyanmic and per cpu based, address of per cpu buffer is exported through
"/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/crash_notes"
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c
index 281d267..982e658 100644
--- a/drivers/base/cpu.c
+++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c
@@ -83,6 +83,33 @@
}
#endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
+#include <linux/kexec.h>
+
+static ssize_t show_crash_notes(struct sys_device *dev, char *buf)
+{
+ struct cpu *cpu = container_of(dev, struct cpu, sysdev);
+ ssize_t rc;
+ unsigned long long addr;
+ int cpunum;
+
+ cpunum = cpu->sysdev.id;
+
+ /*
+ * Might be reading other cpu's data based on which cpu read thread
+ * has been scheduled. But cpu data (memory) is allocated once during
+ * boot up and this data does not change there after. Hence this
+ * operation should be safe. No locking required.
+ */
+ get_cpu();
+ addr = __pa(per_cpu_ptr(crash_notes, cpunum));
+ rc = sprintf(buf, "%Lx\n", addr);
+ put_cpu();
+ return rc;
+}
+static SYSDEV_ATTR(crash_notes, 0400, show_crash_notes, NULL);
+#endif
+
/*
* register_cpu - Setup a driverfs device for a CPU.
* @cpu - Callers can set the cpu->no_control field to 1, to indicate not to
@@ -108,6 +135,11 @@
register_cpu_control(cpu);
if (!error)
cpu_sys_devices[num] = &cpu->sysdev;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
+ if (!error)
+ error = sysdev_create_file(&cpu->sysdev, &attr_crash_notes);
+#endif
return error;
}