[PATCH] kdump: Routines for copying dump pages

This patch provides the interfaces necessary to read the dump contents,
treating it as a high memory device.

Signed off by Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
Vivek Goyal
2005-06-25 14:58:19 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 5f016456c9
commit 60e64d46a5
6 changed files with 83 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -75,6 +75,24 @@ void kunmap_atomic(void *kvaddr, enum km_type type)
preempt_check_resched();
}
/* This is the same as kmap_atomic() but can map memory that doesn't
* have a struct page associated with it.
*/
void *kmap_atomic_pfn(unsigned long pfn, enum km_type type)
{
enum fixed_addresses idx;
unsigned long vaddr;
inc_preempt_count();
idx = type + KM_TYPE_NR*smp_processor_id();
vaddr = __fix_to_virt(FIX_KMAP_BEGIN + idx);
set_pte(kmap_pte-idx, pfn_pte(pfn, kmap_prot));
__flush_tlb_one(vaddr);
return (void*) vaddr;
}
struct page *kmap_atomic_to_page(void *ptr)
{
unsigned long idx, vaddr = (unsigned long)ptr;