linux/kernel
Bernhard Walle cba63c3089 Extended crashkernel command line
This patch adds a extended crashkernel syntax that makes the value of reserved
system RAM dependent on the system RAM itself:

    crashkernel=<range1>:<size1>[,<range2>:<size2>,...][@offset]
    range=start-[end]

For example:

    crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M

The motivation comes from distributors that configure their crashkernel
command line automatically with some configuration tool (YaST, you know ;)).
Of course that tool knows the value of System RAM, but if the user removes
RAM, then the system becomes unbootable or at least unusable and error
handling is very difficult.

This series implements this change for i386, x86_64, ia64, ppc64 and sh.  That
should be all platforms that support kdump in current mainline.  I tested all
platforms except sh due to the lack of a sh processor.

This patch:

This is the generic part of the patch.  It adds a parse_crashkernel() function
in kernel/kexec.c that is called by the architecture specific code that
actually reserves the memory.  That function takes the whole command line and
looks itself for "crashkernel=" in it.

If there are multiple occurrences, then the last one is taken.  The advantage
is that if you have a bootloader like lilo or elilo which allows you to append
a command line parameter but not to remove one (like in GRUB), then you can
add another crashkernel value for testing at the boot command line and this
one overwrites the command line in the configuration then.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:49 -07:00
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irq Compile handle_percpu_irq even for uniprocessor kernels 2007-10-17 08:43:00 -07:00
power Hibernation: Enter platform hibernation state in a consistent way 2007-10-18 14:37:20 -07:00
time kernel/time/clocksource.c: Use list_for_each_entry instead of list_for_each 2007-10-19 11:53:38 -07:00
.gitignore
acct.c whitespace fixes: process accounting 2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
audit.c whitespace fixes: system auditing 2007-10-18 14:37:25 -07:00
audit.h Audit: add TTY input auditing 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
auditfilter.c whitespace fixes: audit filtering 2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
auditsc.c whitespace fixes: syscall auditing 2007-10-18 14:37:25 -07:00
capability.c Uninline find_pid etc set of functions 2007-10-19 11:53:41 -07:00
cgroup_debug.c Task Control Groups: simple task cgroup debug info subsystem 2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
cgroup.c Control groups: Replace "cont" with "cgrp" and other misc renaming 2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
compat.c Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt 2007-10-18 15:12:41 -07:00
configs.c use simple_read_from_buffer in kernel/ 2007-05-09 12:30:49 -07:00
cpu_acct.c Task Control Groups: example CPU accounting subsystem 2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
cpu.c CPU HOTPLUG: avoid hotadd when proper possible_map isn't specified 2007-10-19 11:53:44 -07:00
cpuset.c hotplug cpu: migrate a task within its cpuset 2007-10-19 11:53:44 -07:00
delayacct.c Add scaled time to taskstats based process accounting 2007-10-18 14:37:28 -07:00
dma.c whitespace fixes: DMA channel allocator 2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
exec_domain.c whitespace fixes: execution domains 2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
exit.c Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks 2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c Isolate the explicit usage of signal->pgrp 2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
futex_compat.c Uninline find_task_by_xxx set of functions 2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
futex.c Uninline find_task_by_xxx set of functions 2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
hrtimer.c hrtimer: Rework hrtimer_nanosleep to make sys_compat_nanosleep easier 2007-10-18 22:54:18 +02:00
itimer.c whitespace fixes: interval timers 2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms: make KSYM_NAME_LEN include space for trailing '\0' 2007-07-17 10:23:03 -07:00
Kconfig.hz [PATCH] HZ: 300Hz support 2006-12-07 08:39:36 -08:00
Kconfig.preempt Move PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS into an always-included Kconfig 2007-10-17 08:42:55 -07:00
kexec.c Extended crashkernel command line 2007-10-19 11:53:49 -07:00
kfifo.c is_power_of_2: kernel/kfifo.c 2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
kmod.c Restore call_usermodehelper_pipe() behaviour 2007-09-11 17:21:20 -07:00
kprobes.c kprobes: support kretprobe blacklist 2007-10-16 09:43:10 -07:00
ksysfs.c add-vmcore: cleanup the coding style according to Andrew's comments 2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
kthread.c kthread: silence bogus section mismatch warning 2007-07-31 15:39:42 -07:00
latency.c [PATCH] severing module.h->sched.h 2006-12-04 02:00:22 -05:00
lockdep_internals.h [PATCH] lockdep: more chains 2006-12-07 08:39:43 -08:00
lockdep_proc.c lockdep: Avoid /proc/lockdep & lock_stat infinite output 2007-10-11 22:11:11 +02:00
lockdep.c Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks 2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
Makefile cgroups: implement namespace tracking subsystem 2007-10-19 11:53:37 -07:00
module.c whitespace fixes: module loading 2007-10-18 14:37:25 -07:00
mutex-debug.c [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c lockdep: fixup mutex annotations 2007-10-11 22:11:12 +02:00
mutex.h
notifier.c Add kernel/notifier.c 2007-10-19 11:53:34 -07:00
ns_cgroup.c cgroups: implement namespace tracking subsystem 2007-10-19 11:53:37 -07:00
nsproxy.c pid namespaces: allow cloning of new namespace 2007-10-19 11:53:39 -07:00
panic.c whitespace fixes: panic handling 2007-10-18 14:37:25 -07:00
params.c param_sysfs_builtin memchr argument fix 2007-10-18 14:37:21 -07:00
pid.c Uninline the task_xid_nr_ns() calls 2007-10-19 11:53:41 -07:00
posix-cpu-timers.c Isolate some explicit usage of task->tgid 2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
posix-timers.c Isolate some explicit usage of task->tgid 2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
printk.c serial: turn serial console suspend a boot rather than compile time option 2007-10-18 14:37:19 -07:00
profile.c make kernel/profile.c:time_hook static 2007-10-17 08:42:55 -07:00
ptrace.c Isolate some explicit usage of task->tgid 2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
rcupdate.c Clean up duplicate includes in kernel/ 2007-10-17 08:42:48 -07:00
rcutorture.c Make rcutorture RNG use temporal entropy 2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
relay.c whitespace fixes: relayfs 2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
resource.c memory unplug: memory hotplug cleanup 2007-10-16 09:43:01 -07:00
rtmutex_common.h FUTEX: Tidy up the code 2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.c Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks 2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
rtmutex.c Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks 2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c lockstat: hook into spinlock_t, rwlock_t, rwsem and mutex 2007-07-19 10:04:49 -07:00
sched_debug.c sched: reduce schedstat variable overhead a bit 2007-10-18 21:32:56 +02:00
sched_fair.c sched: fix new task startup crash 2007-10-17 16:55:11 +02:00
sched_idletask.c sched: mark scheduling classes as const 2007-10-15 17:00:12 +02:00
sched_rt.c sched: tidy up SCHED_RR 2007-10-15 17:00:13 +02:00
sched_stats.h sched: reduce schedstat variable overhead a bit 2007-10-18 21:32:56 +02:00
sched.c hotplug cpu: migrate a task within its cpuset 2007-10-19 11:53:44 -07:00
seccomp.c make seccomp zerocost in schedule 2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
signal.c Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks 2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
softirq.c [KERNEL]: Unexport raise_softirq_irqoff 2007-10-10 16:49:18 -07:00
softlockup.c Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks 2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
spinlock.c lockstat: hook into spinlock_t, rwlock_t, rwsem and mutex 2007-07-19 10:04:49 -07:00
srcu.c [PATCH] SRCU: report out-of-memory errors 2006-10-04 07:55:30 -07:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c Fix stop_machine_run problem with naughty real time process 2007-07-16 09:05:41 -07:00
sys_ni.c kernel/sys_ni.c: add dummy sys_ni_syscall() prototype 2007-10-17 08:42:55 -07:00
sys.c Isolate the explicit usage of signal->pgrp 2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
sysctl_check.c V3 file capabilities: alter behavior of cap_setpcap 2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
sysctl.c pid namespaces: changes to show virtual ids to user 2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
taskstats.c Add cgroupstats 2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
time.c whitespace fixes: time syscalls 2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
timer.c pid namespaces: changes to show virtual ids to user 2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
tsacct.c Add scaled time to taskstats based process accounting 2007-10-18 14:37:28 -07:00
uid16.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
user_namespace.c Fix user namespace exiting OOPs 2007-09-19 11:24:18 -07:00
user.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched 2007-10-17 09:11:18 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c remove CONFIG_UTS_NS and CONFIG_IPC_NS 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
utsname.c Fix UTS corruption during clone(CLONE_NEWUTS) 2007-09-19 11:24:17 -07:00
wait.c Fix occurrences of "the the " 2007-05-09 08:57:56 +02:00
workqueue.c Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks 2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00