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<title>linux.git/fs/proc/vmcore.c, branch v5.1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>mm: remove include/linux/bootmem.h</title>
<updated>2018-10-31T15:54:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-30T22:09:49+00:00</published>
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Move remaining definitions and declarations from include/linux/bootmem.h
into include/linux/memblock.h and remove the redundant header.

The includes were replaced with the semantic patch below and then
semi-automated removal of duplicated '#include &lt;linux/memblock.h&gt;

@@
@@
- #include &lt;linux/bootmem.h&gt;
+ #include &lt;linux/memblock.h&gt;

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: dma-direct: fix up for the removal of linux/bootmem.h]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181002185342.133d1680@canb.auug.org.au
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: powerpc: fix up for removal of linux/bootmem.h]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181005161406.73ef8727@canb.auug.org.au
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: x86/kaslr, ACPI/NUMA: fix for linux/bootmem.h removal]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181008190341.5e396491@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1536927045-23536-30-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Greentime Hu &lt;green.hu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Serge Semin &lt;fancer.lancer@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Move remaining definitions and declarations from include/linux/bootmem.h
into include/linux/memblock.h and remove the redundant header.

The includes were replaced with the semantic patch below and then
semi-automated removal of duplicated '#include &lt;linux/memblock.h&gt;

@@
@@
- #include &lt;linux/bootmem.h&gt;
+ #include &lt;linux/memblock.h&gt;

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: dma-direct: fix up for the removal of linux/bootmem.h]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181002185342.133d1680@canb.auug.org.au
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: powerpc: fix up for removal of linux/bootmem.h]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181005161406.73ef8727@canb.auug.org.au
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: x86/kaslr, ACPI/NUMA: fix for linux/bootmem.h removal]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181008190341.5e396491@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1536927045-23536-30-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Greentime Hu &lt;green.hu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Serge Semin &lt;fancer.lancer@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/proc/vmcore.c: Convert to use vmf_error()</title>
<updated>2018-10-31T15:54:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Souptick Joarder</name>
<email>jrdr.linux@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-30T22:04:35+00:00</published>
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This code can be replaced with vmf_error() inline function.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180918145945.GA11392@jordon-HP-15-Notebook-PC
Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder &lt;jrdr.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This code can be replaced with vmf_error() inline function.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180918145945.GA11392@jordon-HP-15-Notebook-PC
Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder &lt;jrdr.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>proc/vmcore: Fix i386 build error of missing copy_oldmem_page_encrypted()</title>
<updated>2018-10-09T09:57:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-08T08:05:20+00:00</published>
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Lianbo reported a build error with a particular 32-bit config, see Link
below for details.

Provide a weak copy_oldmem_page_encrypted() function which architectures
can override, in the same manner other functionality in that file is
supplied.

Reported-by: Lianbo Jiang &lt;lijiang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
CC: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/710b9d95-2f70-eadf-c4a1-c3dc80ee4ebb@redhat.com
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Lianbo reported a build error with a particular 32-bit config, see Link
below for details.

Provide a weak copy_oldmem_page_encrypted() function which architectures
can override, in the same manner other functionality in that file is
supplied.

Reported-by: Lianbo Jiang &lt;lijiang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
CC: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/710b9d95-2f70-eadf-c4a1-c3dc80ee4ebb@redhat.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kdump, proc/vmcore: Enable kdumping encrypted memory with SME enabled</title>
<updated>2018-10-06T10:09:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lianbo Jiang</name>
<email>lijiang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-30T08:37:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=992b649a3f013465d8128da02e5449def662a4c3'/>
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In the kdump kernel, the memory of the first kernel needs to be dumped
into the vmcore file.

If SME is enabled in the first kernel, the old memory has to be remapped
with the memory encryption mask in order to access it properly.

Split copy_oldmem_page() functionality to handle encrypted memory
properly.

 [ bp: Heavily massage everything. ]

Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang &lt;lijiang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com
Cc: bhelgaas@google.com
Cc: baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com
Cc: tiwai@suse.de
Cc: brijesh.singh@amd.com
Cc: dyoung@redhat.com
Cc: bhe@redhat.com
Cc: jroedel@suse.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/be7b47f9-6be6-e0d1-2c2a-9125bc74b818@redhat.com
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In the kdump kernel, the memory of the first kernel needs to be dumped
into the vmcore file.

If SME is enabled in the first kernel, the old memory has to be remapped
with the memory encryption mask in order to access it properly.

Split copy_oldmem_page() functionality to handle encrypted memory
properly.

 [ bp: Heavily massage everything. ]

Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang &lt;lijiang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com
Cc: bhelgaas@google.com
Cc: baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com
Cc: tiwai@suse.de
Cc: brijesh.singh@amd.com
Cc: dyoung@redhat.com
Cc: bhe@redhat.com
Cc: jroedel@suse.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/be7b47f9-6be6-e0d1-2c2a-9125bc74b818@redhat.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/proc/vmcore.c: hide vmcoredd_mmap_dumps() for nommu builds</title>
<updated>2018-08-24T01:48:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-24T00:00:55+00:00</published>
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Without CONFIG_MMU, we get a build warning:

  fs/proc/vmcore.c:228:12: error: 'vmcoredd_mmap_dumps' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
   static int vmcoredd_mmap_dumps(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long dst,

The function is only referenced from an #ifdef'ed caller, so
this uses the same #ifdef around it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180525213526.2117790-1-arnd@arndb.de
Fixes: 7efe48df8a3d ("vmcore: append device dumps to vmcore as elf notes")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Ganesh Goudar &lt;ganeshgr@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Rahul Lakkireddy &lt;rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Without CONFIG_MMU, we get a build warning:

  fs/proc/vmcore.c:228:12: error: 'vmcoredd_mmap_dumps' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
   static int vmcoredd_mmap_dumps(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long dst,

The function is only referenced from an #ifdef'ed caller, so
this uses the same #ifdef around it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180525213526.2117790-1-arnd@arndb.de
Fixes: 7efe48df8a3d ("vmcore: append device dumps to vmcore as elf notes")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Ganesh Goudar &lt;ganeshgr@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Rahul Lakkireddy &lt;rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/proc/vmcore.c: use new typedef vm_fault_t</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T17:52:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Souptick Joarder</name>
<email>jrdr.linux@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T04:54:44+00:00</published>
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Use new return type vm_fault_t for fault handler in struct
vm_operations_struct.  For now, this is just documenting that the function
returns a VM_FAULT value rather than an errno.  Once all instances are
converted, vm_fault_t will become a distinct type.

See 1c8f422059ae ("mm: change return type to vm_fault_t") for reference.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180702153325.GA3875@jordon-HP-15-Notebook-PC
Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder &lt;jrdr.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Ganesh Goudar &lt;ganeshgr@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Rahul Lakkireddy &lt;rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Use new return type vm_fault_t for fault handler in struct
vm_operations_struct.  For now, this is just documenting that the function
returns a VM_FAULT value rather than an errno.  Once all instances are
converted, vm_fault_t will become a distinct type.

See 1c8f422059ae ("mm: change return type to vm_fault_t") for reference.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180702153325.GA3875@jordon-HP-15-Notebook-PC
Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder &lt;jrdr.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Ganesh Goudar &lt;ganeshgr@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Rahul Lakkireddy &lt;rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vmcore: move get_vmcore_size out of __init</title>
<updated>2018-05-21T16:34:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rahul Lakkireddy</name>
<email>rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-21T13:37:50+00:00</published>
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Fix below build warning:

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x422bb8): Section mismatch in reference from
the function vmcore_add_device_dump() to the function
.init.text:get_vmcore_size.constprop.5()

The function vmcore_add_device_dump() references
the function __init get_vmcore_size.constprop.5().
This is often because vmcore_add_device_dump lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of get_vmcore_size.constprop.5 is wrong.

Fixes: 7efe48df8a3d ("vmcore: append device dumps to vmcore as elf notes")
Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy &lt;rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Goudar &lt;ganeshgr@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Fix below build warning:

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x422bb8): Section mismatch in reference from
the function vmcore_add_device_dump() to the function
.init.text:get_vmcore_size.constprop.5()

The function vmcore_add_device_dump() references
the function __init get_vmcore_size.constprop.5().
This is often because vmcore_add_device_dump lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of get_vmcore_size.constprop.5 is wrong.

Fixes: 7efe48df8a3d ("vmcore: append device dumps to vmcore as elf notes")
Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy &lt;rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Goudar &lt;ganeshgr@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vmcore: append device dumps to vmcore as elf notes</title>
<updated>2018-05-14T17:46:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rahul Lakkireddy</name>
<email>rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-02T09:47:18+00:00</published>
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Update read and mmap logic to append device dumps as additional notes
before the other elf notes. We add device dumps before other elf notes
because the other elf notes may not fill the elf notes buffer
completely and we will end up with zero-filled data between the elf
notes and the device dumps. Tools will then try to decode this
zero-filled data as valid notes and we don't want that. Hence, adding
device dumps before the other elf notes ensure that zero-filled data
can be avoided. This also ensures that the device dumps and the
other elf notes can be properly mmaped at page aligned address.

Incorporate device dump size into the total vmcore size. Also update
offsets for other program headers after the device dumps are added.

Suggested-by: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;.
Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy &lt;rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Goudar &lt;ganeshgr@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Update read and mmap logic to append device dumps as additional notes
before the other elf notes. We add device dumps before other elf notes
because the other elf notes may not fill the elf notes buffer
completely and we will end up with zero-filled data between the elf
notes and the device dumps. Tools will then try to decode this
zero-filled data as valid notes and we don't want that. Hence, adding
device dumps before the other elf notes ensure that zero-filled data
can be avoided. This also ensures that the device dumps and the
other elf notes can be properly mmaped at page aligned address.

Incorporate device dump size into the total vmcore size. Also update
offsets for other program headers after the device dumps are added.

Suggested-by: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;.
Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy &lt;rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Goudar &lt;ganeshgr@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in second kernel</title>
<updated>2018-05-14T17:46:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rahul Lakkireddy</name>
<email>rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-02T09:47:17+00:00</published>
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The sequence of actions done by device drivers to append their device
specific hardware/firmware logs to /proc/vmcore are as follows:

1. During probe (before hardware is initialized), device drivers
register to the vmcore module (via vmcore_add_device_dump()), with
callback function, along with buffer size and log name needed for
firmware/hardware log collection.

2. vmcore module allocates the buffer with requested size. It adds
an Elf note and invokes the device driver's registered callback
function.

3. Device driver collects all hardware/firmware logs into the buffer
and returns control back to vmcore module.

Ensure that the device dump buffer size is always aligned to page size
so that it can be mmaped.

Also, rename alloc_elfnotes_buf() to vmcore_alloc_buf() to make it more
generic and reserve NT_VMCOREDD note type to indicate vmcore device
dump.

Suggested-by: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;.
Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy &lt;rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Goudar &lt;ganeshgr@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The sequence of actions done by device drivers to append their device
specific hardware/firmware logs to /proc/vmcore are as follows:

1. During probe (before hardware is initialized), device drivers
register to the vmcore module (via vmcore_add_device_dump()), with
callback function, along with buffer size and log name needed for
firmware/hardware log collection.

2. vmcore module allocates the buffer with requested size. It adds
an Elf note and invokes the device driver's registered callback
function.

3. Device driver collects all hardware/firmware logs into the buffer
and returns control back to vmcore module.

Ensure that the device dump buffer size is always aligned to page size
so that it can be mmaped.

Also, rename alloc_elfnotes_buf() to vmcore_alloc_buf() to make it more
generic and reserve NT_VMCOREDD note type to indicate vmcore device
dump.

Suggested-by: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;.
Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy &lt;rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Goudar &lt;ganeshgr@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/proc/vmcore.c: simpler /proc/vmcore cleanup</title>
<updated>2018-02-07T02:32:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-06T23:37:02+00:00</published>
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Iterators aren't necessary as you can just grab the first entry and delete
it until no entries left.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171121191121.GA20757@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Iterators aren't necessary as you can just grab the first entry and delete
it until no entries left.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171121191121.GA20757@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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