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Vivek Goyal 50cccc699e [PATCH] Kexec on panic vmlinux initrd fix
This is a minor bug fix in kexec to resolve the problem of loading panic
kernel with initrd.

o Problem: Loading a capture kenrel fails if initrd is also being loaded.
  This has been observed for vmlinux image for kexec on panic case.

o This patch fixes the problem. In segment location and size verification
  logic, minor correction has been done. Segment memory end (mend) should be
  mstart + memsz - 1. This one byte offset was source of failure for initrd
  loading which was being loaded at hole boundary.

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>
2005-06-25 16:24:48 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman dc009d9243 [PATCH] kexec: add kexec syscalls
This patch introduces the architecture independent implementation the
sys_kexec_load, the compat_sys_kexec_load system calls.

Kexec on panic support has been integrated into the core patch and is
relatively clean.

In addition the hopefully architecture independent option
crashkernel=size@location has been docuemented.  It's purpose is to reserve
space for the panic kernel to live, and where no DMA transfer will ever be
setup to access.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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>
2005-06-25 16:24:48 -07:00