[PATCH] i386: Restore CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option
o Relocatable bzImage support had got rid of CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option thinking that now this option is not required as people can build a second kernel as relocatable and load it anywhere. So need of compiling the kernel for a custom address was gone. But Magnus uses vmlinux images for second kernel in Xen environment and he wants to continue to use it. o Restoring the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option for the time being. I think down the line we can get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@ -777,6 +777,47 @@ config CRASH_DUMP
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PHYSICAL_START.
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For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
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config PHYSICAL_START
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hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP)
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default "0x100000"
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help
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This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded.
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If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then
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bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and
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run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where
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it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical
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address.
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In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option
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as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image
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(CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different
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address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want
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to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a
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vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs
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to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area
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(normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy.
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So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, leave
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the value here unchanged to 0x100000 and set CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y.
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Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux for capturing the crash dump
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change this value to start of the reserved region (Typically 16MB
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0x1000000). In other words, it can be set based on the "X" value as
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specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" command line boot parameter
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passed to the panic-ed kernel. Typically this parameter is set as
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crashkernel=64M@16M. Please take a look at
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Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for more details about crash dumps.
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Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as
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one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used
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as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have
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gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it
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is present because there are users out there who continue to use
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vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the
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line.
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Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.
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config RELOCATABLE
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bool "Build a relocatable kernel(EXPERIMENTAL)"
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depends on EXPERIMENTAL
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#define ASK_VGA 0xfffd /* ask for it at bootup */
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/* Physical address where kenrel should be loaded. */
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#define LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR ((0x100000 + CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN - 1) \
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#define LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR ((CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START \
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+ (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN - 1)) \
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& ~(CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN - 1))
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#endif /* _LINUX_BOOT_H */
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