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authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>2014-01-23 18:56:01 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-01-23 19:37:03 -0500
commitbdd490ade365b1173485b829e5457af8e16c7f01 (patch)
treea2eea5e26d56697d5a06249dea5b8c91f472117b /Documentation/ABI
parent77019967f06b5f30c8b619eac0dfdbc68465fa87 (diff)
kdump: add /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo ABI documentation
/sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo was introduced long back but there is no ABI documentation. This patch adds the documentation. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1What: /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo
2Date: October 2007
3KernelVersion: 2.6.24
4Contact: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
5 Kexec Mailing List <kexec@lists.infradead.org>
6 Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
7Description
8 Shows physical address and size of vmcoreinfo ELF note.
9 First value contains physical address of note in hex and
10 second value contains the size of note in hex. This ELF
11 note info is parsed by second kernel and exported to user
12 space as part of ELF note in /proc/vmcore file. This note
13 contains various information like struct size, symbol
14 values, page size etc.