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authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>2005-06-25 17:58:23 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-25 19:24:54 -0400
commit50b1fdbd81edcc8bd343ca44aca2b87a29e2f15c (patch)
treefc5da6014f015171574c337be1c3abce5573ec99 /Documentation/devices.txt
parent72658e9d5004fc0dd807bea9eda49e6a52e40103 (diff)
[PATCH] kdump: Accessing dump file in linear raw format (/dev/oldmem)
Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com> This patch contains the code that enables us to access the previous kernel's memory as /dev/oldmem. Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated.
94 9 = /dev/urandom Faster, less secure random number gen. 94 9 = /dev/urandom Faster, less secure random number gen.
95 10 = /dev/aio Asyncronous I/O notification interface 95 10 = /dev/aio Asyncronous I/O notification interface
96 11 = /dev/kmsg Writes to this come out as printk's 96 11 = /dev/kmsg Writes to this come out as printk's
97 12 = /dev/oldmem Access to crash dump from kexec kernel
97 1 block RAM disk 98 1 block RAM disk
98 0 = /dev/ram0 First RAM disk 99 0 = /dev/ram0 First RAM disk
99 1 = /dev/ram1 Second RAM disk 100 1 = /dev/ram1 Second RAM disk