This is the x86 implementation of the crashkernel option. It reserves a
window of memory very early in the bootup process, so we never use it for
anything but the kernel to switch to when the running kernel panics.
In addition to reserving this memory a resource structure is registered so
looking at /proc/iomem it is clear what happened to that memory.
ISSUES:
Is it possible to implement this in a architecture generic way?
What should be done with architectures that always use an iommu and
thus don't report their RAM memory resources in /proc/iomem?
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch fixes a problem with reserving memory during boot up of a kernel
built for non-default location. Currently boot memory allocator reserves
the memory required by kernel image, boot allocaotor bitmap etc. It
assumes that kernel is loaded at 1MB (HIGH_MEMORY hard coded to 1024*1024).
But kernel can be built for non-default locatoin, hence existing
hardcoding will lead to reserving unnecessary memory. This patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Fix a kexec problem whcih causes local APIC detection failure.
The problem is detect_init_APIC() is called early, before the command line
have been processed. Therefore "lapic" (and "nolapic") have not been seen,
yet.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Trival patch for CPU hotplug. In CPU identify part, only did cleaup for intel
CPUs. Need do for other CPUs if they support S3 SMP.
Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua<shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* EXPORT_SYMBOL's moved to other files
* #include <linux/config.h>, <linux/module.h> where needed
* #include's in i386_ksyms.c cleaned up
* After copy-paste, redundant due to Makefiles rules preprocessor directives
removed:
#ifdef CONFIG_FOO
EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);
#endif
obj-$(CONFIG_FOO) += foo.o
* Tiny reformat to fit in 80 columns
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Provide the architecture specific implementation for SPARSEMEM for i386 SMP
and NUMA systems.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Bligh <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is a neverending story
linux/acpi.h contains empty declarations for acpi_boot_init() &
acpi_boot_table_init() but they are nested inside #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI.
So we'll have to #ifdef in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c: setup_arch()
Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!