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powerpc: FA_DUMP depends on KEXEC 

If you try and build the FA_DUMP code with CONFIG_KEXEC=n, you see
errors such as the following:

arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
  408:2: error: 'crashing_cpu' undeclared (first use in this function)
  410:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'crash_save_vmcoreinfo'
  513:22: error: storage size of 'prstatus' isn't known
  520:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'elf_core_copy_kernel_regs'
  521:36: error: 'KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME' undeclared (first use in this function)
  624:49: error: 'note_buf_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
  872:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'paddr_vmcoreinfo_note'
  874:18: error: 'vmcoreinfo_max_size' undeclared (first use in this function)

This is because although FA_DUMP doesn't use kexec as the actual reboot
mechanism, it does use parts of the kexec code to assemble/disassemble
the crash image.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Michael Ellerman 2013-10-28 15:00:35 +11:00 committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
parent b83941798c
commit 90890b1ef5
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@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ config CRASH_DUMP
config FA_DUMP
bool "Firmware-assisted dump"
depends on PPC64 && PPC_RTAS && CRASH_DUMP
depends on PPC64 && PPC_RTAS && CRASH_DUMP && KEXEC
help
A robust mechanism to get reliable kernel crash dump with
assistance from firmware. This approach does not use kexec,