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1 /*
2 * kernel/crash_dump.c - Memory preserving reboot related code.
4 * Created by: Hariprasad Nellitheertha (hari@in.ibm.com)
5 * Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 2004. All rights reserved
6 */
8 #include <linux/smp_lock.h>
9 #include <linux/errno.h>
10 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
11 #include <linux/bootmem.h>
12 #include <linux/highmem.h>
13 #include <linux/crash_dump.h>
15 #include <asm/io.h>
16 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
18 /* Stores the physical address of elf header of crash image. */
19 unsigned long long elfcorehdr_addr = ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX;
21 /**
22 * copy_oldmem_page - copy one page from "oldmem"
23 * @pfn: page frame number to be copied
24 * @buf: target memory address for the copy; this can be in kernel address
25 * space or user address space (see @userbuf)
26 * @csize: number of bytes to copy
27 * @offset: offset in bytes into the page (based on pfn) to begin the copy
28 * @userbuf: if set, @buf is in user address space, use copy_to_user(),
29 * otherwise @buf is in kernel address space, use memcpy().
31 * Copy a page from "oldmem". For this page, there is no pte mapped
32 * in the current kernel. We stitch up a pte, similar to kmap_atomic.
34 ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long pfn, char *buf,
35 size_t csize, unsigned long offset, int userbuf)
37 void *page, *vaddr;
39 if (!csize)
40 return 0;
42 page = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
43 if (!page)
44 return -ENOMEM;
46 vaddr = kmap_atomic_pfn(pfn, KM_PTE0);
47 copy_page(page, vaddr);
48 kunmap_atomic(vaddr, KM_PTE0);
50 if (userbuf) {
51 if (copy_to_user(buf, (page + offset), csize)) {
52 kfree(page);
53 return -EFAULT;
55 } else {
56 memcpy(buf, (page + offset), csize);
59 kfree(page);
60 return csize;