arm64: kdump: provide /proc/vmcore file
Arch-specific functions are added to allow for implementing a crash dump
file interface, /proc/vmcore, which can be viewed as a ELF file.
A user space tool, like kexec-tools, is responsible for allocating
a separate region for the core's ELF header within crash kdump kernel
memory and filling it in when executing kexec_load().
Then, its location will be advertised to crash dump kernel via a new
device-tree property, "linux,elfcorehdr", and crash dump kernel preserves
the region for later use with reserve_elfcorehdr() at boot time.
On crash dump kernel, /proc/vmcore will access the primary kernel's memory
with copy_oldmem_page(), which feeds the data page-by-page by ioremap'ing
it since it does not reside in linear mapping on crash dump kernel.
Meanwhile, elfcorehdr_read() is simple as the region is always mapped.
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 3741859..e7f043e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -736,6 +736,17 @@
but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot
you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux.
+config CRASH_DUMP
+ bool "Build kdump crash kernel"
+ help
+ Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. This should
+ be normally only set in special crash dump kernels which are
+ loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into a specially
+ reserved region and then later executed after a crash by
+ kdump/kexec.
+
+ For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+
config XEN_DOM0
def_bool y
depends on XEN
