[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>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 8157f2e2d515..062177956239 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -734,6 +734,12 @@ config PROC_KCORE
         bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM
         depends on PROC_FS && MMU
 
+config PROC_VMCORE
+        bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+        depends on PROC_FS && EMBEDDED && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
+        help
+        Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
+
 config SYSFS
         bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED
         default y