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author | Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> | 2014-01-23 18:56:01 -0500 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-01-23 19:37:03 -0500 |
commit | bdd490ade365b1173485b829e5457af8e16c7f01 (patch) | |
tree | a2eea5e26d56697d5a06249dea5b8c91f472117b /Documentation/ABI | |
parent | 77019967f06b5f30c8b619eac0dfdbc68465fa87 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-vmcoreinfo | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-vmcoreinfo b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-vmcoreinfo new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7bd81168e063 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-vmcoreinfo | |||
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ | |||
1 | What: /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo | ||
2 | Date: October 2007 | ||
3 | KernelVersion: 2.6.24 | ||
4 | Contact: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> | ||
5 | Kexec Mailing List <kexec@lists.infradead.org> | ||
6 | Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> | ||
7 | Description | ||
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. | ||