linux-kernel-test/arch/x86_64
Vivek Goyal cc57165874 [PATCH] kdump: dynamic per cpu allocation of memory for saving cpu registers
- In case of system crash, current state of cpu registers is saved in memory
  in elf note format.  So far memory for storing elf notes was being allocated
  statically for NR_CPUS.

- This patch introduces dynamic allocation of memory for storing elf notes.
  It uses alloc_percpu() interface.  This should lead to better memory usage.

- Introduced based on Andi Kleen's and Eric W. Biederman's suggestions.

- This patch also moves memory allocation for elf notes from architecture
  dependent portion to architecture independent portion.  Now crash_notes is
  architecture independent.  The whole idea is that size of memory to be
  allocated per cpu (MAX_NOTE_BYTES) can be architecture dependent and
  allocation of this memory can be architecture independent.

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>
2006-01-10 08:01:26 -08:00
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boot [PATCH] Split out screen_info from tty.h 2006-01-08 20:14:05 -08:00
crypto [CRYPTO] Allow AES C/ASM implementations to coexist 2006-01-09 14:15:39 -08:00
ia32 [PATCH] use ptrace_get_task_struct in various places 2006-01-08 20:13:51 -08:00
kernel [PATCH] kdump: dynamic per cpu allocation of memory for saving cpu registers 2006-01-10 08:01:26 -08:00
lib [PATCH] x86_64: Remove optimization for B stepping AMD K8 2005-11-14 19:55:17 -08:00
mm [PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read-only: x86-64 support 2006-01-06 08:33:36 -08:00
oprofile [PATCH] Move Kprobes and Oprofile to "Instrumentation Support" menu 2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
pci [PATCH] Fix build with CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG 2005-12-20 10:41:57 -08:00
defconfig [PATCH] x86_64: Update defconfig 2005-11-14 19:55:12 -08:00
Kconfig [PATCH] tiny: Make *[ug]id16 support optional 2006-01-08 20:14:11 -08:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read-only: x86-64 support 2006-01-06 08:33:36 -08:00
Makefile kbuild: alpha,x86_64 use generic asm-offsets.h support 2005-09-09 21:28:48 +02:00