[PATCH] i386: Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps
authorIan Campbell <ian.campbell@xensource.com>
Wed, 2 May 2007 17:27:09 +0000 (19:27 +0200)
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>
Wed, 2 May 2007 17:27:09 +0000 (19:27 +0200)
commit79e030114a8d97a1dcd593ab84fb986f8c91c536
treeae96f84611dd963c11ce2962a67197030ddd0f3e
parenteab0c72aecd7982b2c848f7d493ba379efcef15e
[PATCH] i386: Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps

The specific case I am encountering is kdump under Xen with a 64 bit
hypervisor and 32 bit kernel/userspace.  The dump created is 64 bit due to
the hypervisor but the dump kernel is 32 bit for maximum compatibility.

It's possibly less likely to be useful in a purely native scenario but I
see no reason to disallow it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
fs/proc/vmcore.c
include/asm-i386/kexec.h
include/linux/crash_dump.h