Patch series "Convert vmcore to use an iov_iter", v5.
For some reason several people have been sending bad patches to fix
compiler warnings in vmcore recently. Here's how it should be done.
Compile-tested only on x86. As noted in the first patch, s390 should take
this conversion a bit further, but I'm not inclined to do that work
myself.
This patch (of 3):
Instead of passing in a 'buf' and 'userbuf' argument, pass in an iov_iter.
s390 needs more work to pass the iov_iter down further, or refactor, but
I'd be more comfortable if someone who can test on s390 did that work.
It's more convenient to convert the whole of read_from_oldmem() to take an
iov_iter at the same time, so rename it to read_from_oldmem_iter() and add
a temporary read_from_oldmem() wrapper that creates an iov_iter.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220408090636.560886-1-bhe@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220408090636.560886-2-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This patch allows Linux to act as a crash kernel for use with
kdump. Userspace will let the crash kernel know about the
memory region it can use through linux,usable-memory property
on the /memory node (overriding its reg property), and about the
memory region where the elf core header of the previous kernel
is saved, through a reserved-memory node with a compatible string
of "linux,elfcorehdr". This approach is the least invasive and
re-uses functionality already present.
I tested this on riscv64 qemu and it works as expected, you
may test it by retrieving the dmesg of the previous kernel
through /proc/vmcore, using the vmcore-dmesg utility from
kexec-tools.
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mick@ics.forth.gr>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)