On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 01:15:34AM +0800, Zou, Nanhai wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Simon Horman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: 2007年4月16日 16:21
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
> > Cc: Vivek Goyal; Luck, Tony; Zou, Nanhai
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec/kdump: Use generic elf code on ia64
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> > -crash_save_this_cpu(void)
> > +ia64_kexec_elf_core_copy_regs(elf_gregset_t *elfregs, struct pt_regs *regs)
> > {
> > - void *buf;
> > unsigned long cfm, sof, sol;
> > -
> > - int cpu = smp_processor_id();
> > - struct elf_prstatus *prstatus = &per_cpu(elf_prstatus, cpu);
> > -
> > - elf_greg_t *dst = (elf_greg_t *)&(prstatus->pr_reg);
> > - memset(prstatus, 0, sizeof(*prstatus));
> > - prstatus->pr_pid = current->pid;
> > + elf_greg_t *dst = (elf_greg_t *)elfregs;
>
> There was a concern about struct elf_prstatus is so big on IA64 that it
> better not to put it on stack, consider crash happen with a deep stack..., So
> I put the structure into percpu data.
>
> With this patch, it fallbacks to stack.
Thanks, I was wondering why was per_cpu rather than on the stack.
I'll rework things a bit so per_cpu data is used once again.
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