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authorWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>2012-01-13 01:20:11 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-13 04:13:11 (GMT)
commita3dd3323058d281abd584b15ad4c5b65064d7a61 (patch)
tree98c65337f9960db2d0ca55687314bb821f3e7c1f
parent9512938b885304f72c847379611d6018064af840 (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-a3dd3323058d281abd584b15ad4c5b65064d7a61.tar.xz
kexec: remove KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC
KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC is useless because we already save kernel messages inside /proc/vmcore, and it is unsafe to allow modules to do other stuffs in a crash dump scenario. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build] Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c1
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ramoops.c3
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c3
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kmsg_dump.h1
-rw-r--r--kernel/kexec.c3
5 files changed, 2 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c
index 330a57b..36f957f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c
@@ -638,7 +638,6 @@ static void oops_to_nvram(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
/* These are almost always orderly shutdowns. */
return;
case KMSG_DUMP_OOPS:
- case KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC:
break;
case KMSG_DUMP_PANIC:
panicking = true;
diff --git a/drivers/char/ramoops.c b/drivers/char/ramoops.c
index 7c7f42a1f8..feda90c 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ramoops.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ramoops.c
@@ -83,8 +83,7 @@ static void ramoops_do_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
struct timeval timestamp;
if (reason != KMSG_DUMP_OOPS &&
- reason != KMSG_DUMP_PANIC &&
- reason != KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC)
+ reason != KMSG_DUMP_PANIC)
return;
/* Only dump oopses if dump_oops is set */
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c
index db8e827..3ce99e0 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c
@@ -315,8 +315,7 @@ static void mtdoops_do_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
char *dst;
if (reason != KMSG_DUMP_OOPS &&
- reason != KMSG_DUMP_PANIC &&
- reason != KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC)
+ reason != KMSG_DUMP_PANIC)
return;
/* Only dump oopses if dump_oops is set */
diff --git a/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h b/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
index ee0c952..fee6631 100644
--- a/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
+++ b/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
enum kmsg_dump_reason {
KMSG_DUMP_OOPS,
KMSG_DUMP_PANIC,
- KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC,
KMSG_DUMP_RESTART,
KMSG_DUMP_HALT,
KMSG_DUMP_POWEROFF,
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index 090ee10..20ed47a 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
#include <linux/console.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
-#include <linux/kmsg_dump.h>
#include <linux/syscore_ops.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
@@ -1094,8 +1093,6 @@ void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
if (kexec_crash_image) {
struct pt_regs fixed_regs;
- kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC);
-
crash_setup_regs(&fixed_regs, regs);
crash_save_vmcoreinfo();
machine_crash_shutdown(&fixed_regs);