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Simon Horman 6672f76a5a kdump/kexec: calculate note size at compile time 
Currently the size of the per-cpu region reserved to save crash notes is
set by the per-architecture value MAX_NOTE_BYTES.  Which in turn is
currently set to 1024 on all supported architectures.

While testing ia64 I recently discovered that this value is in fact too
small.  The particular setup I was using actually needs 1172 bytes.  This
lead to very tedious failure mode where the tail of one elf note would
overwrite the head of another if they ended up being alocated sequentially
by kmalloc, which was often the case.

It seems to me that a far better approach is to caclculate the size that
the area needs to be.  This patch does just that.

If a simpler stop-gap patch for ia64 to be squeezed into 2.6.21(.X) is
needed then this should be as easy as making MAX_NOTE_BYTES larger in
arch/asm-ia64/kexec.h.  Perhaps 2048 would be a good choice.  However, I
think that the approach in this patch is a much more robust idea.

Acked-by:  Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
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irq IRQ: check for PERCPU flag only when adding first irqaction 2007-05-08 11:15:06 -07:00
power header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
time Move timekeeping code to timekeeping.c 2007-05-08 11:15:06 -07:00
.gitignore
acct.c [PATCH] kernel: change uses of f_{dentry, vfsmnt} to use f_path 2006-12-08 08:28:42 -08:00
audit.c [NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override it 2007-04-25 22:29:03 -07:00
audit.h
auditfilter.c [PATCH] minor update to rule add/delete messages (ver 2) 2007-02-17 21:30:09 -05:00
auditsc.c [PATCH] fix deadlock in audit_log_task_context() 2007-03-14 15:27:48 -07:00
capability.c [PATCH] pid: replace do/while_each_task_pid with do/while_each_pid_task 2007-02-12 09:48:32 -08:00
compat.c [PATCH] Common compat_sys_sysinfo 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
configs.c
cpu.c [PATCH] Fix microcode-related suspend problem 2007-04-02 10:06:09 -07:00
cpuset.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
delayacct.c KMEM_CACHE(): simplify slab cache creation 2007-05-07 12:12:55 -07:00
die_notifier.c move die notifier handling to common code 2007-05-08 11:15:04 -07:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
futex.c futex: restartable futex_wait 2007-05-08 11:15:03 -07:00
futex_compat.c
hrtimer.c [NET]: Fix networking compilation errors 2007-04-27 15:31:24 -07:00
itimer.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
kallsyms.c Extend print_symbol capability 2007-04-30 16:40:39 -07:00
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kdump/kexec: calculate note size at compile time 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
kfifo.c [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files. 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
kmod.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
kprobes.c move die notifier handling to common code 2007-05-08 11:15:04 -07:00
ksysfs.c remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer needed 2007-05-02 18:57:59 -07:00
kthread.c [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files. 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
latency.c
lockdep.c simplify the stacktrace code 2007-05-08 11:14:58 -07:00
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
Makefile move die notifier handling to common code 2007-05-08 11:15:04 -07:00
module.c module: use krealloc 2007-05-08 11:15:00 -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 [PATCH] lockdep: avoid lockdep warning in md 2006-12-08 08:28:39 -08:00
mutex.h
nsproxy.c Merge sys_clone()/sys_unshare() nsproxy and namespace handling 2007-05-08 11:15:00 -07:00
panic.c [PATCH] Add TAINT_USER and ability to set taint flags from userspace 2007-02-11 10:51:29 -08:00
params.c remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer needed 2007-05-02 18:57:59 -07:00
pid.c Merge sys_clone()/sys_unshare() nsproxy and namespace handling 2007-05-08 11:15:00 -07:00
posix-cpu-timers.c [PATCH] posix timers: RCU optimization for clock_gettime() 2007-02-16 08:14:00 -08:00
posix-timers.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
printk.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
profile.c [PATCH] proc: remove useless (and buggy) ->nlink settings 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
ptrace.c
rcupdate.c
rcutorture.c rcutorture: Mark rcu_torture_init as __init 2007-05-08 11:15:00 -07:00
relay.c [PATCH] kernel-doc fixes for 2.6.20-git15 (non-drivers) 2007-03-01 14:53:37 -08:00
resource.c libata/IDE: remove combined mode quirk 2007-04-28 14:15:59 -04:00
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c [PATCH] hrtimers: namespace and enum cleanup 2007-02-16 08:13:58 -08:00
rtmutex.h
rtmutex_common.h
rwsem.c
sched.c add touch_all_softlockup_watchdogs() 2007-05-08 11:15:06 -07:00
seccomp.c
signal.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
softirq.c [PATCH] tick-management: dyntick / highres functionality 2007-02-16 08:13:59 -08:00
softlockup.c add touch_all_softlockup_watchdogs() 2007-05-08 11:15:06 -07:00
spinlock.c
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c Use stop_machine_run in the Intel RNG driver 2007-05-08 11:15:00 -07:00
sys.c remove software_suspend() 2007-05-07 12:12:59 -07:00
sys_ni.c
sysctl.c proc: maps protection 2007-05-08 11:15:02 -07:00
taskstats.c KMEM_CACHE(): simplify slab cache creation 2007-05-07 12:12:55 -07:00
time.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
timer.c Move timekeeping code to timekeeping.c 2007-05-08 11:15:06 -07:00
tsacct.c [PATCH] time: x86_64: split x86_64/kernel/time.c up 2007-02-16 08:14:00 -08:00
uid16.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
user.c
utsname.c Merge sys_clone()/sys_unshare() nsproxy and namespace handling 2007-05-08 11:15:00 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c [PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl 2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
wait.c
workqueue.c [PATCH] Add debugging feature /proc/timer_stat 2007-02-16 08:13:59 -08:00