tree e1847f5547a7a426214e9ef0719eab908ee305d7
parent 82409411571ad89d271dc46f7fa26149fad9efdf
author Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> 1136868701 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> 1136908886 -0800

[PATCH] kdump: dynamic per cpu allocation of memory for saving cpu registers

- In case of system crash, current state of cpu registers is saved in memory
  in elf note format.  So far memory for storing elf notes was being allocated
  statically for NR_CPUS.

- This patch introduces dynamic allocation of memory for storing elf notes.
  It uses alloc_percpu() interface.  This should lead to better memory usage.

- Introduced based on Andi Kleen's and Eric W. Biederman's suggestions.

- This patch also moves memory allocation for elf notes from architecture
  dependent portion to architecture independent portion.  Now crash_notes is
  architecture independent.  The whole idea is that size of memory to be
  allocated per cpu (MAX_NOTE_BYTES) can be architecture dependent and
  allocation of this memory can be architecture independent.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>