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: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [mpe: Make the comment in pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear() clearer] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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