[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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt
index bb67cf25010e..0f515175c72a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devices.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devices.txt
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated.
                   9 = /dev/urandom      Faster, less secure random number gen.
                  10 = /dev/aio          Asyncronous I/O notification interface
                  11 = /dev/kmsg         Writes to this come out as printk's
+                 12 = /dev/oldmem       Access to crash dump from kexec kernel
   1 block       RAM disk
                   0 = /dev/ram0         First RAM disk
                   1 = /dev/ram1         Second RAM disk