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authorPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>2010-05-07 17:58:55 +0900
committerPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>2010-05-07 17:58:55 +0900
commit7aed3b34fb0a98e89d0e999f5833ceebdb3876b9 (patch)
treedbf3eb56fe9ad5a42523d1f207443d8ef3fdae78 /arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c
parentaa424bbb8cf5f7f3c6a70065bcb28a6e6af7897d (diff)
sh: shuffle the elfcorehdr handling over to the crash dump code.
The elfcorehdr parsing was just tossed in setup.c, but nothing outside of the crash dump code/vmcore bits require it, so we just move it out of the way, as per ppc. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c20
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c b/arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c
index 95d216255565..37c97d444576 100644
--- a/arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c
+++ b/arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
* Created by: Hariprasad Nellitheertha (hari@in.ibm.com)
* Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 2004. All rights reserved
*/
-
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
#include <linux/io.h>
@@ -13,6 +12,25 @@
/* Stores the physical address of elf header of crash image. */
unsigned long long elfcorehdr_addr = ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX;
+/*
+ * Note: elfcorehdr_addr is not just limited to vmcore. It is also used by
+ * is_kdump_kernel() to determine if we are booting after a panic. Hence
+ * ifdef it under CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP and not CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE.
+ *
+ * elfcorehdr= specifies the location of elf core header
+ * stored by the crashed kernel.
+ */
+static int __init parse_elfcorehdr(char *arg)
+{
+ if (!arg)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ elfcorehdr_addr = memparse(arg, &arg);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("elfcorehdr", parse_elfcorehdr);
+
/**
* copy_oldmem_page - copy one page from "oldmem"
* @pfn: page frame number to be copied