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authorR Sharada <sharada@in.ibm.com>2005-06-25 14:58:10 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-25 16:24:51 -0700
commitfce0d5740322b98b863f9e609f5a9bd4c06703af (patch)
tree658f5aca95d62c8e35f938a435d9f512c21921df /arch/ppc64/Kconfig
parentf4c82d5132b0592f5d6befc5b652cbd4b08f12ff (diff)
[PATCH] ppc64: kexec support for ppc64
This patch implements the kexec support for ppc64 platforms. A couple of notes: 1) We copy the pages in virtual mode, using the full base kernel and a statically allocated stack. At kexec_prepare time we scan the pages and if any overlap our (0, _end[]) range we return -ETXTBSY. On PowerPC 64 systems running in LPAR (logical partitioning) mode, only a small region of memory, referred to as the RMO, can be accessed in real mode. Since Linux runs with only one zone of memory in the memory allocator, and it can be orders of magnitude more memory than the RMO, looping until we allocate pages in the source region is not feasible. Copying in virtual means we don't have to write a hash table generation and call hypervisor to insert translations, instead we rely on the pinned kernel linear mapping. The kernel already has move to linked location built in, so there is no requirement to load it at 0. If we want to load something other than a kernel, then a stub can be written to copy a linear chunk in real mode. 2) The start entry point gets passed parameters from the kernel. Slaves are started at a fixed address after copying code from the entry point. All CPUs get passed their firmware assigned physical id in r3 (most calling conventions use this register for the first argument). This is used to distinguish each CPU from all other CPUs. Since firmware is not around, there is no other way to obtain this information other than to pass it somewhere. A single CPU, referred to here as the master and the one executing the kexec call, branches to start with the address of start in r4. While this can be calculated, we have to load it through a gpr to branch to this point so defining the register this is contained in is free. A stack of unspecified size is available at r1 (also common calling convention). All remaining running CPUs are sent to start at absolute address 0x60 after copying the first 0x100 bytes from start to address 0. This convention was chosen because it matches what the kernel has been doing itself. (only gpr3 is defined). Note: This is not quite the convention of the kexec bootblock v2 in the kernel. A stub has been written to convert between them, and we may adjust the kernel in the future to allow this directly without any stub. 3) Destination pages can be placed anywhere, even where they would not be accessible in real mode. This will allow us to place ram disks above the RMO if we choose. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: R Sharada <sharada@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/arch/ppc64/Kconfig b/arch/ppc64/Kconfig
index 5f40b438b58..f804f25232a 100644
--- a/arch/ppc64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/ppc64/Kconfig
@@ -142,6 +142,23 @@ config PPC_SPLPAR
processors, that is, which share physical processors between
two or more partitions.
+config KEXEC
+ bool "kexec system call (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on PPC_MULTIPLATFORM && EXPERIMENTAL
+ help
+ kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your
+ current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot
+ but it is indepedent of the system firmware. And like a reboot
+ you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux.
+
+ The name comes from the similiarity to the exec system call.
+
+ It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine
+ is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not
+ initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging
+ support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is
+ strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made.
+
config IBMVIO
depends on PPC_PSERIES || PPC_ISERIES
bool