[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>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/mm/highmem.c b/arch/i386/mm/highmem.c
index 4b7aaf99d7e..b6eb4dcb877 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;