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authorAlexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>2005-06-25 23:58:26 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-26 01:24:54 +0200
commit6e274d144302068a00794ec22e73520c0615cb6f (patch)
treef7ea59ea47d3c5676fbac8d39e8deaa1f94146ae /arch/x86_64
parent[PATCH] kdump: sysrq trigger mechanism for kexec based crashdumps (diff)
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[PATCH] kdump: Use real pt_regs from exception
Makes kexec_crashdump() take a pt_regs * as an argument. This allows to get exact register state at the point of the crash. If we come from direct panic assertion NULL will be passed and the current registers saved before crashdump. This hooks into two places: die(): check the conditions under which we will panic when calling do_exit and go there directly with the pt_regs that caused the fatal fault. die_nmi(): If we receive an NMI lockup while in the kernel use the pt_regs and go directly to crash_kexec(). We're probably nested up badly at this point so this might be the only chance to escape with proper information. Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/kernel/crash.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/crash.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/crash.c
index 6183bcb85257..d7fa4248501c 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/crash.c
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
note_buf_t crash_notes[NR_CPUS];
-void machine_crash_shutdown(void)
+void machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
/* This function is only called after the system
* has paniced or is otherwise in a critical state.