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authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>2005-06-25 14:58:19 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-25 16:24:53 -0700
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[PATCH] kdump: Routines for copying dump pages
This patch provides the interfaces necessary to read the dump contents, treating it as a high memory device. Signed off by Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> 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>
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/mm/highmem.c b/arch/i386/mm/highmem.c
index 4b7aaf99d7ea..b6eb4dcb8777 100644
--- a/arch/i386/mm/highmem.c
+++ b/arch/i386/mm/highmem.c
@@ -75,6 +75,24 @@ void kunmap_atomic(void *kvaddr, enum km_type type)
preempt_check_resched();
}
+/* This is the same as kmap_atomic() but can map memory that doesn't
+ * have a struct page associated with it.
+ */
+void *kmap_atomic_pfn(unsigned long pfn, enum km_type type)
+{
+ enum fixed_addresses idx;
+ unsigned long vaddr;
+
+ inc_preempt_count();
+
+ idx = type + KM_TYPE_NR*smp_processor_id();
+ vaddr = __fix_to_virt(FIX_KMAP_BEGIN + idx);
+ set_pte(kmap_pte-idx, pfn_pte(pfn, kmap_prot));
+ __flush_tlb_one(vaddr);
+
+ return (void*) vaddr;
+}
+
struct page *kmap_atomic_to_page(void *ptr)
{
unsigned long idx, vaddr = (unsigned long)ptr;