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| author |   Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xensource.com> | 2007-05-02 19:27:09 +0200 |
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| committer |   Andi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org> | 2007-05-02 19:27:09 +0200 |
| commit | 79e030114a8d97a1dcd593ab84fb986f8c91c536 (patch) | |
| tree | ae96f84611dd963c11ce2962a67197030ddd0f3e /include/asm-i386 | |
| parent | [PATCH] x86-64: Introduce load_TLS to the "for" loop. (diff) | |
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[PATCH] i386: Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps
The specific case I am encountering is kdump under Xen with a 64 bit
hypervisor and 32 bit kernel/userspace. The dump created is 64 bit due to
the hypervisor but the dump kernel is 32 bit for maximum compatibility.
It's possibly less likely to be useful in a purely native scenario but I
see no reason to disallow it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-i386')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-i386/kexec.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/kexec.h b/include/asm-i386/kexec.h index c5b4ab95bdc2..bcb5b21de2d2 100644 --- a/include/asm-i386/kexec.h +++ b/include/asm-i386/kexec.h @@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ /* The native architecture */ #define KEXEC_ARCH KEXEC_ARCH_386 +/* We can also handle crash dumps from 64 bit kernel. */ +#define vmcore_elf_check_arch_cross(x) ((x)->e_machine == EM_X86_64) + #define MAX_NOTE_BYTES 1024 /* CPU does not save ss and esp on stack if execution is already |