In kdump kernel, /proc/vmcore is an elf file mapping the crashed kernel's
old memory content. Its elf header is constructed in 1st kernel and passed
to kdump kernel via elfcorehdr_addr. Config CRASH_DUMP enables the code
of 1st kernel's old memory accessing in different architectures.
Currently, config FA_DUMP has dependency on CRASH_DUMP because fadump
needs access global variable 'elfcorehdr_addr' to judge if it's in
kdump kernel within function is_kdump_kernel(). In the current
kernel/crash_dump.c, variable 'elfcorehdr_addr' is defined, and function
setup_elfcorehdr() used to parse kernel parameter to fetch the passed
value of elfcorehdr_addr. Only for accessing elfcorehdr_addr, FA_DUMP
really doesn't have to depends on CRASH_DUMP.
To remove the dependency of FA_DUMP on CRASH_DUMP to avoid confusion,
rename kernel/crash_dump.c to kernel/elfcorehdr.c, and build it when
CONFIG_VMCORE_INFO is ebabled. With this, FA_DUMP doesn't need to depend
on CRASH_DUMP.
[bhe@redhat.com: power/fadump: make FA_DUMP select CRASH_DUMP]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Zb8D1ASrgX0qVm9z@MiWiFi-R3L-srv
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124051254.67105-4-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com>
Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
config FA_DUMP
bool "Firmware-assisted dump"
depends on PPC64 && (PPC_RTAS || PPC_POWERNV)
- select VMCORE_INFO
- select CRASH_RESERVE
select CRASH_DUMP
help
A robust mechanism to get reliable kernel crash dump with
obj-$(CONFIG_KALLSYMS) += kallsyms.o
obj-$(CONFIG_KALLSYMS_SELFTEST) += kallsyms_selftest.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT) += acct.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_VMCORE_INFO) += vmcore_info.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_VMCORE_INFO) += vmcore_info.o elfcorehdr.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CRASH_RESERVE) += crash_reserve.o
obj-$(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE) += kexec_core.o crash_core.o
obj-$(CONFIG_KEXEC) += kexec.o
obj-$(CONFIG_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER) += user-return-notifier.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PADATA) += padata.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP) += crash_dump.o
obj-$(CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL) += jump_label.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING) += context_tracking.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TORTURE_TEST) += torture.o
#include <linux/kexec.h>
+struct kexec_segment;
+
struct kimage *do_kimage_alloc_init(void);
int sanity_check_segment_list(struct kimage *image);
void kimage_free_page_list(struct list_head *list);