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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 /drivers/char
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 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/sysrq.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/sysrq.c b/drivers/char/sysrq.c
index 53b2c8fab00e..af79805b5576 100644
--- a/drivers/char/sysrq.c
+++ b/drivers/char/sysrq.c
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_unraw_op = {
static void sysrq_handle_crashdump(int key, struct pt_regs *pt_regs,
struct tty_struct *tty)
{
- crash_kexec();
+ crash_kexec(pt_regs);
}
static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_crashdump_op = {
.handler = sysrq_handle_crashdump,