kexec: add sysctl to disable kexec_load

For general-purpose (i.e. distro) kernel builds it makes sense to build
with CONFIG_KEXEC to allow end users to choose what kind of things they

kexec: add sysctl to disable kexec_load

For general-purpose (i.e. distro) kernel builds it makes sense to build
with CONFIG_KEXEC to allow end users to choose what kind of things they
want to do with kexec. However, in the face of trying to lock down a
system with such a kernel, there needs to be a way to disable kexec_load
(much like module loading can be disabled). Without this, it is too easy
for the root user to modify kernel memory even when CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM
and modules_disabled are set. With this change, it is still possible to
load an image for use later, then disable kexec_load so the image (or lack
of image) can't be altered.

The intention is for using this in environments where "perfect"
enforcement is hard. Without a verified boot, along with verified
modules, and along with verified kexec, this is trying to give a system a
better chance to defend itself (or at least grow the window of
discoverability) against attack in the face of a privilege escalation.

In my mind, I consider several boot scenarios:

1) Verified boot of read-only verified root fs loading fd-based
verification of kexec images.
2) Secure boot of writable root fs loading signed kexec images.
3) Regular boot loading kexec (e.g. kcrash) image early and locking it.
4) Regular boot with no control of kexec image at all.

1 and 2 don't exist yet, but will soon once the verified kexec series has
landed. 4 is the state of things now. The gap between 2 and 4 is too
large, so this change creates scenario 3, a middle-ground above 4 when 2
and 1 are not possible for a system.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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kexec: migrate to reboot cpu

Commit 1b3a5d02ee07 ("reboot: move arch/x86 reboot= handling to generic
kernel") moved reboot= handling to generic code. In the process it also
removed

kexec: migrate to reboot cpu

Commit 1b3a5d02ee07 ("reboot: move arch/x86 reboot= handling to generic
kernel") moved reboot= handling to generic code. In the process it also
removed the code in native_machine_shutdown() which are moving reboot
process to reboot_cpu/cpu0.

I guess that thought must have been that all reboot paths are calling
migrate_to_reboot_cpu(), so we don't need this special handling. But
kexec reboot path (kernel_kexec()) is not calling
migrate_to_reboot_cpu() so above change broke kexec. Now reboot can
happen on non-boot cpu and when INIT is sent in second kerneo to bring
up BP, it brings down the machine.

So start calling migrate_to_reboot_cpu() in kexec reboot path to avoid
this problem.

Bisected by WANG Chao.

Reported-by: Matthew Whitehead <mwhitehe@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Tested-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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PCI: Disable Bus Master only on kexec reboot

Add a flag to tell the PCI subsystem that kernel is shutting down in
preparation to kexec a kernel. Add code in PCI subsystem to use this fl

PCI: Disable Bus Master only on kexec reboot

Add a flag to tell the PCI subsystem that kernel is shutting down in
preparation to kexec a kernel. Add code in PCI subsystem to use this flag
to clear Bus Master bit on PCI devices only in case of kexec reboot.

This fixes a power-off problem on Acer Aspire V5-573G and likely other
machines and avoids any other issues caused by clearing Bus Master bit on
PCI devices in normal shutdown path. The problem was introduced by
b566a22c2332 ("PCI: disable Bus Master on PCI device shutdown").

This patch is based on discussion at
http://marc.info/?l=linux-pci&m=138425645204355&w=2

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63861
Reported-by: Chang Liu <cl91tp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.5+

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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual earth-shaking, news-breaking, rocket science p

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual earth-shaking, news-breaking, rocket science pile from
trivial.git"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits)
doc: usb: Fix typo in Documentation/usb/gadget_configs.txt
doc: add missing files to timers/00-INDEX
timekeeping: Fix some trivial typos in comments
mm: Fix some trivial typos in comments
irq: Fix some trivial typos in comments
NUMA: fix typos in Kconfig help text
mm: update 00-INDEX
doc: Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt fix typo
DRM: comment: `halve' -> `half'
Docs: Kconfig: `devlopers' -> `developers'
doc: typo on word accounting in kprobes.c in mutliple architectures
treewide: fix "usefull" typo
treewide: fix "distingush" typo
mm/Kconfig: Grammar s/an/a/
kexec: Typo s/the/then/
Documentation/kvm: Update cpuid documentation for steal time and pv eoi
treewide: Fix common typo in "identify"
__page_to_pfn: Fix typo in comment
Correct some typos for word frequency
clk: fixed-factor: Fix a trivial typo
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kexec: Typo s/the/then/

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

kexec: remove unnecessary return

Code can not run here forever, so remove the unnecessary return.

Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhan

kexec: remove unnecessary return

Code can not run here forever, so remove the unnecessary return.

Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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kexec: Use min() and min_t() to simplify logic

Simplify the logic of variable assignments.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: replace min_t with min, remove unneeded casts]
Signed-off-

kexec: Use min() and min_t() to simplify logic

Simplify the logic of variable assignments.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: replace min_t with min, remove unneeded casts]
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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kexec: fix wrong types of some local variables

The types of the following local variables:

- ubytes/mbytes in kimage_load_crash_segment()/kimage_load_normal_segment()

- r i

kexec: fix wrong types of some local variables

The types of the following local variables:

- ubytes/mbytes in kimage_load_crash_segment()/kimage_load_normal_segment()

- r in vmcoreinfo_append_str()

are wrong, so fix them.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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kexec, vmalloc: export additional vmalloc layer information

Now, vmap_area_list is exported as VMCOREINFO for makedumpfile to get
the start address of vmalloc region (vmalloc_start). Th

kexec, vmalloc: export additional vmalloc layer information

Now, vmap_area_list is exported as VMCOREINFO for makedumpfile to get
the start address of vmalloc region (vmalloc_start). The address which
contains vmalloc_start value is represented as below:

vmap_area_list.next - OFFSET(vmap_area.list) + OFFSET(vmap_area.va_start)

However, both OFFSET(vmap_area.va_start) and OFFSET(vmap_area.list)
aren't exported as VMCOREINFO.

So this patch exports them externally with small cleanup.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: vmalloc.h should include list.h for list_head]
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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mm, vmalloc: export vmap_area_list, instead of vmlist

Although our intention is to unexport internal structure entirely, but
there is one exception for kexec. kexec dumps address of vml

mm, vmalloc: export vmap_area_list, instead of vmlist

Although our intention is to unexport internal structure entirely, but
there is one exception for kexec. kexec dumps address of vmlist and
makedumpfile uses this information.

We are about to remove vmlist, then another way to retrieve information
of vmalloc layer is needed for makedumpfile. For this purpose, we
export vmap_area_list, instead of vmlist.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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mm,kexec: use common help functions to free reserved pages

Use common help functions to free reserved pages.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <

mm,kexec: use common help functions to free reserved pages

Use common help functions to free reserved pages.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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kexec: use Crash kernel for Crash kernel low

We can extend kexec-tools to support multiple "Crash kernel" in /proc/iomem
instead.

So we can use "Crash kernel" instead of "Crash

kexec: use Crash kernel for Crash kernel low

We can extend kexec-tools to support multiple "Crash kernel" in /proc/iomem
instead.

So we can use "Crash kernel" instead of "Crash kernel low" in /proc/iomem.

Suggested-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366089828-19692-3-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

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x86, kdump: Change crashkernel_high/low= to crashkernel=,high/low

Per hpa, use crashkernel=X,high crashkernel=Y,low instead of
crashkernel_hign=X crashkernel_low=Y. As that could be exte

x86, kdump: Change crashkernel_high/low= to crashkernel=,high/low

Per hpa, use crashkernel=X,high crashkernel=Y,low instead of
crashkernel_hign=X crashkernel_low=Y. As that could be extensible.

-v2: according to Vivek, change delimiter to ;
-v3: let hign and low only handle simple form and it conforms to
description in kernel-parameters.txt
still keep crashkernel=X override any crashkernel=X,high
crashkernel=Y,low
-v4: update get_last_crashkernel returning and add more strict
checking in parse_crashkernel_simple() found by HATAYAMA.
-v5: Change delimiter back to , according to HPA.
also separate parse_suffix from parse_simper according to vivek.
so we can avoid @pos in that path.
-v6: Tight the checking about crashkernel=X,highblahblah,high
found by HTYAYAMA.

Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366089828-19692-5-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

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x86, kdump: Retore crashkernel= to allocate under 896M

Vivek found old kexec-tools does not work new kernel anymore.

So change back crashkernel= back to old behavoir, and add crashk

x86, kdump: Retore crashkernel= to allocate under 896M

Vivek found old kexec-tools does not work new kernel anymore.

So change back crashkernel= back to old behavoir, and add crashkernel_high=
to let user decide if buffer could be above 4G, and also new kexec-tools will
be needed.

-v2: let crashkernel=X override crashkernel_high=
update description about _high will be ignored by crashkernel=X
-v3: update description about kernel-parameters.txt according to Vivek.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366089828-19692-4-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

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kexec: avoid freeing NULL pointer in image_crash_alloc()

Though there is no error if we free a NULL pointer, I think we could
avoid this behaviour. Change the code a little in kimage_cr

kexec: avoid freeing NULL pointer in image_crash_alloc()

Though there is no error if we free a NULL pointer, I think we could
avoid this behaviour. Change the code a little in kimage_crash_alloc()
could avoid this kind of unnecessary free.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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kexec: fix memory leak in function kimage_normal_alloc

If kimage_normal_alloc() fails to alloc pages for image->swap_page, it
should call kimage_free_page_list() to free allocated pages

kexec: fix memory leak in function kimage_normal_alloc

If kimage_normal_alloc() fails to alloc pages for image->swap_page, it
should call kimage_free_page_list() to free allocated pages in
image->control_pages list before it frees image.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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kexec: prevent double free on image allocation failure

If kimage_normal_alloc() fails to initialize an allocated kimage, it will
free the image but would still set 'rimage', as a result

kexec: prevent double free on image allocation failure

If kimage_normal_alloc() fails to initialize an allocated kimage, it will
free the image but would still set 'rimage', as a result kexec_load will
try to free it again.

This would explode as part of the freeing process is accessing internal
members which point to uninitialized memory.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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kexec: export PG_hwpoison flag into vmcoreinfo

This patch exports a PG_hwpoison into vmcoreinfo when
CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE is defined. "makedumpfile" needs to read
information of me

kexec: export PG_hwpoison flag into vmcoreinfo

This patch exports a PG_hwpoison into vmcoreinfo when
CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE is defined. "makedumpfile" needs to read
information of memory, such as 'mem_section', 'zone', 'pageflags' from
vmcore.

We introduce a function into "makedumpfile" to exclude hwpoison page from
vmcore dump. In order to introduce this function, PG_hwpoison flag have
to export into vmcoreinfo.

Signed-off-by: Mitsuhiro Tanino <mitsuhiro.tanino.gm@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Mitsuhiro Tanino <mitsuhiro.tanino.gm@hitachi.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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kexec: get rid of duplicate check for hole_end

hole_end has been checked to make sure it is <= crash_res.end in the while
condition check, so the if condition check is duplicate.

kexec: get rid of duplicate check for hole_end

hole_end has been checked to make sure it is <= crash_res.end in the while
condition check, so the if condition check is duplicate.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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kexec: add the values related to buddy system for filtering free pages.

tAdd adds the values related to buddy system to vmcoreinfo data so that
makedumpfile (dump filtering command) can

kexec: add the values related to buddy system for filtering free pages.

tAdd adds the values related to buddy system to vmcoreinfo data so that
makedumpfile (dump filtering command) can filter out all free pages with
the new logic.

It's faster than the current logic because it can distinguish free page
by analyzing page structure at the same time as filtering for other
unnecessary pages (e.g. anonymous page).

OTOH, the current logic has to trace free_list to distinguish free pages
while analyzing page structure to filter out other unnecessary pages.

The new logic uses the fact that buddy page is marked by _mapcount ==
PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE. But, _mapcount shares its memory with other
fields for SLAB/SLUB when PG_slab is set, so we need to check if PG_slab
is set or not before looking up _mapcount value. And we can get the
order of buddy system from private field. To sum it up, the values
below are required for this logic.

Required values:
- OFFSET(page._mapcount)
- OFFSET(page.private)
- NUMBER(PG_slab)
- NUMBER(PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE)

Changelog from v1 to v2:
1. remove SIZE(pageflags)
The new logic was changed after I sent v1 patch.
Accordingly, SIZE(pageflags) has been unnecessary for makedumpfile.

What's makedumpfile:
makedumpfile creates a small dumpfile by excluding unnecessary pages
for the analysis. To distinguish unnecessary pages, makedumpfile gets
the vmcoreinfo data which has the minimum debugging information only
for dump filtering.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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x86: Add Crash kernel low reservation

During kdump kernel's booting stage, it need to find low ram for
swiotlb buffer when system does not support intel iommu/dmar remapping.

ke

x86: Add Crash kernel low reservation

During kdump kernel's booting stage, it need to find low ram for
swiotlb buffer when system does not support intel iommu/dmar remapping.

kexed-tools is appending memmap=exactmap and range from /proc/iomem
with "Crash kernel", and that range is above 4G for 64bit after boot
protocol 2.12.

We need to add another range in /proc/iomem like "Crash kernel low",
so kexec-tools could find that info and append to kdump kernel
command line.

Try to reserve some under 4G if the normal "Crash kernel" is above 4G.

User could specify the size with crashkernel_low=XX[KMG].

-v2: fix warning that is found by Fengguang's test robot.
-v3: move out get_mem_size change to another patch, to solve compiling
warning that is found by Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
-v4: user must specify crashkernel_low if system does not support
intel or amd iommu.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-31-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

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kdump: remove unneeded include

The inclusion of <generated/utsrelease.h> is unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <ho

kdump: remove unneeded include

The inclusion of <generated/utsrelease.h> is unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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kdump: append newline to the last lien of vmcoreinfo note

The last line of vmcoreinfo note does not end with \n. Parsing all the
lines in note becomes easier if all lines end with \n in

kdump: append newline to the last lien of vmcoreinfo note

The last line of vmcoreinfo note does not end with \n. Parsing all the
lines in note becomes easier if all lines end with \n instead of trying to
special case the last line.

I know at least one tool, vmcore-dmesg in kexec-tools tree which made the
assumption that all lines end with \n. I think it is a good idea to fix
it.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

Merge third batch of patches from Andrew Morton:
- Some MM stragglers
- core SMP library cleanups (on_each_cpu_mask)
- Some IPI optim

Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

Merge third batch of patches from Andrew Morton:
- Some MM stragglers
- core SMP library cleanups (on_each_cpu_mask)
- Some IPI optimisations
- kexec
- kdump
- IPMI
- the radix-tree iterator work
- various other misc bits.

"That'll do for -rc1. I still have ~10 patches for 3.4, will send
those along when they've baked a little more."

* emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (35 commits)
backlight: fix typo in tosa_lcd.c
crc32: add help text for the algorithm select option
mm: move hugepage test examples to tools/testing/selftests/vm
mm: move slabinfo.c to tools/vm
mm: move page-types.c from Documentation to tools/vm
selftests/Makefile: make `run_tests' depend on `all'
selftests: launch individual selftests from the main Makefile
radix-tree: use iterators in find_get_pages* functions
radix-tree: rewrite gang lookup using iterator
radix-tree: introduce bit-optimized iterator
fs/proc/namespaces.c: prevent crash when ns_entries[] is empty
nbd: rename the nbd_device variable from lo to nbd
pidns: add reboot_pid_ns() to handle the reboot syscall
sysctl: use bitmap library functions
ipmi: use locks on watchdog timeout set on reboot
ipmi: simplify locking
ipmi: fix message handling during panics
ipmi: use a tasklet for handling received messages
ipmi: increase KCS timeouts
ipmi: decrease the IPMI message transaction time in interrupt mode
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kexec: add further check to crashkernel

When using crashkernel=2M-256M, the kernel doesn't give any warning. This
is misleading sometimes.

Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzh

kexec: add further check to crashkernel

When using crashkernel=2M-256M, the kernel doesn't give any warning. This
is misleading sometimes.

Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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