[PATCH] kdump: Access dump file in elf format (/proc/vmcore)
From: "Vivek Goyal" <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
o Support for /proc/vmcore interface. This interface exports elf core image
either in ELF32 or ELF64 format, depending on the format in which elf headers
have been stored by crashed kernel.
o Added support for CONFIG_VMCORE config option.
o Removed the dependency on /proc/kcore.
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
This patch has been refactored to more closely match the prevailing style in
the affected files. And to clearly indicate the dependency between
/proc/kcore and proc/vmcore.c
From: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>
This patch contains the code that provides an ELF format interface to the
previous kernel's memory post kexec reboot.
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>
diff --git a/include/linux/crash_dump.h b/include/linux/crash_dump.h
index 3f25fd1..534d750 100644
--- a/include/linux/crash_dump.h
+++ b/include/linux/crash_dump.h
@@ -7,8 +7,12 @@
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
+#define ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX (-1ULL)
extern unsigned long long elfcorehdr_addr;
extern ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long, char *, size_t,
unsigned long, int);
+extern struct file_operations proc_vmcore_operations;
+extern struct proc_dir_entry *proc_vmcore;
+
#endif /* CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP */
#endif /* LINUX_CRASHDUMP_H */