From 1767c8f392857694899403a65942cc70b5b7d132 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Milton Miller Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:39:18 +0000 Subject: powerpc: Kexec exit should not use magic numbers Commit 54622f10a6aabb8bb2bdacf3dd070046f03dc246 ("powerpc: Support for relocatable kdump kernel") added a magic flag value in a register to tell purgatory that it should be a panic kernel. This part is wrong and is reverted by this commit. The kernel gets a list of memory blocks and a entry point from user space. Its job is to copy the blocks into place and then branch to the designated entry point (after turning "off" the mmu). The user space tool inserts a trampoline, called purgatory, that runs before the user supplied code. Its job is to establish the entry environment for the new kernel or other application based on the contents of memory. The purgatory code is compiled and embedded in the tool, where it is later patched using the elf symbol table using elf symbols. Since the tool knows it is creating a purgatory that will run after a kernel crash, it should just patch purgatory (or the kernel directly) if something needs to happen. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/kdump.h | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/kdump.h') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kdump.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kdump.h index a503da9d56f3..821ed48c10ed 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kdump.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kdump.h @@ -9,12 +9,6 @@ * Reserve to the end of the FWNMI area, see head_64.S */ #define KDUMP_RESERVE_LIMIT 0x10000 /* 64K */ -/* - * Used to differentiate between relocatable kdump kernel and other - * kernels - */ -#define KDUMP_SIGNATURE 0xfeed1234 - #ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP #define KDUMP_TRAMPOLINE_START 0x0100 -- cgit v1.2.3