[PATCH] kexec: x86 kexec core

This is the i386 implementation of kexec.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/crash.c b/arch/i386/kernel/crash.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fa27a6c2abb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/crash.c
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+/*
+ * Architecture specific (i386) functions for kexec based crash dumps.
+ *
+ * Created by: Hariprasad Nellitheertha (hari@in.ibm.com)
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 2004. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/smp.h>
+#include <linux/irq.h>
+#include <linux/reboot.h>
+#include <linux/kexec.h>
+#include <linux/irq.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/elf.h>
+#include <linux/elfcore.h>
+
+#include <asm/processor.h>
+#include <asm/hardirq.h>
+#include <asm/nmi.h>
+#include <asm/hw_irq.h>
+
+#define MAX_NOTE_BYTES 1024
+typedef u32 note_buf_t[MAX_NOTE_BYTES/4];
+
+note_buf_t crash_notes[NR_CPUS];
+
+void machine_crash_shutdown(void)
+{
+	/* This function is only called after the system
+	 * has paniced or is otherwise in a critical state.
+	 * The minimum amount of code to allow a kexec'd kernel
+	 * to run successfully needs to happen here.
+	 *
+	 * In practice this means shooting down the other cpus in
+	 * an SMP system.
+	 */
+}