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Commit 408cddd9 authored by Hari Bathini's avatar Hari Bathini Committed by Michael Ellerman
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powerpc/fadump: Fix endianess issues in firmware assisted dump handling



Firmware-assisted dump (fadump) kernel code is not endian safe. The
below patch fixes this issue. Tested this patch with upstream kernel.
Below output shows crash tool successfully opening LE fadump vmcore.

    # crash vmlinux vmcore
    GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6
    This GDB was configured as "powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu"...

          KERNEL: vmlinux
        DUMPFILE: vmcore
    	CPUS: 16
    	DATE: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
          UPTIME: 00:03:28
    LOAD AVERAGE: 0.46, 0.86, 0.41
           TASKS: 268
        NODENAME: linux-dhr2
         RELEASE: 3.17.0-rc5-7-default
         VERSION: #6 SMP Tue Sep 30 01:06:34 EDT 2014
         MACHINE: ppc64le  (4116 Mhz)
          MEMORY: 40 GB
           PANIC: "Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]" (check log for details)
    	 PID: 6223
         COMMAND: "bash"
    	TASK: c0000009661b2500  [THREAD_INFO: c000000967ac0000]
    	 CPU: 2
           STATE: TASK_RUNNING (PANIC)

Signed-off-by: default avatarHari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Make the comment in pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear() clearer]
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
parent 94966b71
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