+int kimage_crash_copy_vmcoreinfo(struct kimage *image)
+{
+ struct page *vmcoreinfo_page;
+ void *safecopy;
+
+ if (image->type != KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH)
+ return 0;
+
+ /*
+ * For kdump, allocate one vmcoreinfo safe copy from the
+ * crash memory. as we have arch_kexec_protect_crashkres()
+ * after kexec syscall, we naturally protect it from write
+ * (even read) access under kernel direct mapping. But on
+ * the other hand, we still need to operate it when crash
+ * happens to generate vmcoreinfo note, hereby we rely on
+ * vmap for this purpose.
+ */
+ vmcoreinfo_page = kimage_alloc_control_pages(image, 0);
+ if (!vmcoreinfo_page) {
+ pr_warn("Could not allocate vmcoreinfo buffer\n");
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+ safecopy = vmap(&vmcoreinfo_page, 1, VM_MAP, PAGE_KERNEL);
+ if (!safecopy) {
+ pr_warn("Could not vmap vmcoreinfo buffer\n");
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+
+ image->vmcoreinfo_data_copy = safecopy;
+ crash_update_vmcoreinfo_safecopy(safecopy);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+