fadump: Register for firmware assisted dump.

On 2012-02-20 11:02:51 Mon, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:44:30PM +0530, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote:
>
> If I have read the code correctly, we are going to get this printk on
> non-pSeries machines or on older pSeries machines, even if the user
> has not put the fadump=on option on the kernel command line.  The
> printk will be annoying since there is no actual error condition.  It
> seems to me that the condition for the printk should include
> fw_dump.fadump_enabled.  In other words you should probably add
>
> 	if (!fw_dump.fadump_enabled)
> 		return 0;
>
> at the beginning of the function.

Hi Paul,

Thanks for pointing it out. Please find the updated patch below.

The existing patches above this (4/10 through 10/10) cleanly applies
on this update.

Thanks,
-Mahesh.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
index 2d282186cb45..b534bbac3f82 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
 #include <asm/spu.h>
 #include <asm/udbg.h>
 #include <asm/code-patching.h>
+#include <asm/fadump.h>
 
 #ifdef DEBUG
 #define DBG(fmt...) udbg_printf(fmt)
@@ -625,6 +626,16 @@ static void __init htab_initialize(void)
 		/* Using a hypervisor which owns the htab */
 		htab_address = NULL;
 		_SDR1 = 0; 
+#ifdef CONFIG_FA_DUMP
+		/*
+		 * If firmware assisted dump is active firmware preserves
+		 * the contents of htab along with entire partition memory.
+		 * Clear the htab if firmware assisted dump is active so
+		 * that we dont end up using old mappings.
+		 */
+		if (is_fadump_active() && ppc_md.hpte_clear_all)
+			ppc_md.hpte_clear_all();
+#endif
 	} else {
 		/* Find storage for the HPT.  Must be contiguous in
 		 * the absolute address space. On cell we want it to be