android_kernel_samsung_msm8976/arch/i386
Vivek Goyal 87937472ff [PATCH] i386: export memory more than 4G through /proc/iomem
Currently /proc/iomem exports physical memory also apart from io device
memory.  But on i386, it truncates any memory more than 4GB.  This leads to
problems for kexec/kdump.

Kexec reads /proc/iomem to determine the system memory layout and prepares a
memory map based on that and passes it to the kernel being kexeced.  Given the
fact that memory more than 4GB has been truncated, new kernel never gets to
see and use that memory.

Kdump also reads /proc/iomem to determine the physical memory layout of the
system and encodes this informaiton in ELF headers.  After a crash new kernel
parses these ELF headers being used by previous kernel and vmcore is prepared
accordingly.  As memory more than 4GB has been truncated, kdump never sees
that memory and never prepares ELF headers for it.  Hence vmcore is truncated
and limited to 4GB even if there is more physical memory in the system.

This patch exports memory more than 4GB through /proc/iomem on i386.

Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-27 09:24:00 -07:00
..
boot Merge branch 'x86-64' 2006-06-26 10:51:09 -07:00
crypto [CRYPTO] aes: Add wrappers for assembly routines 2006-06-26 17:34:42 +10:00
kernel [PATCH] i386: export memory more than 4G through /proc/iomem 2006-06-27 09:24:00 -07:00
lib [PATCH] Time: i386 Conversion - part 3: Enable Generic Timekeeping 2006-06-26 09:58:21 -07:00
mach-default [PATCH] Clean up and refactor i386 sub-architecture setup 2006-06-25 10:00:55 -07:00
mach-es7000 [PATCH] Compilation fix for ES7000 when no ACPI is specified in config (i386) 2006-03-23 07:38:04 -08:00
mach-generic [PATCH] i386: apic= command line option should always be 2006-05-30 20:31:05 -07:00
mach-visws [PATCH] Clean up and refactor i386 sub-architecture setup 2006-06-25 10:00:55 -07:00
mach-voyager [PATCH] Clean up and refactor i386 sub-architecture setup 2006-06-25 10:00:55 -07:00
math-emu
mm [PATCH] Notify page fault call chain for i386 2006-06-26 09:58:22 -07:00
oprofile Merge branch 'x86-64' 2006-06-26 10:51:09 -07:00
pci [PATCH] 64bit resource: change pci core and arch code to use resource_size_t 2006-06-27 09:24:00 -07:00
power [PATCH] Don't trigger full rebuild via CONFIG_X86_MCE 2006-06-23 07:42:56 -07:00
defconfig
Kconfig [PATCH] 64bit Resource: finally enable 64bit resource sizes 2006-06-27 09:24:00 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu i386: Trivial typo fixes 2006-06-26 18:47:15 +02:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] i386: Move CONFIG_DOUBLEFAULT into arch/i386 where it belongs. 2006-04-18 10:39:20 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] x86: "make isoimage" support; FDINITRD= support; minor cleanups 2006-03-26 08:56:53 -08:00
Makefile.cpu [PATCH] x86-64: Use -mtune=generic for generic kernels 2006-03-25 09:10:52 -08:00