[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/proc/proc_misc.c b/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
index 94b570ad037d..a3453555a94e 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 #include <linux/jiffies.h>
 #include <linux/sysrq.h>
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
@@ -618,6 +619,11 @@ void __init proc_misc_init(void)
                                 (size_t)high_memory - PAGE_OFFSET + PAGE_SIZE;
         }
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE
+        proc_vmcore = create_proc_entry("vmcore", S_IRUSR, NULL);
+        if (proc_vmcore)
+                proc_vmcore->proc_fops = &proc_vmcore_operations;
+#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ
         entry = create_proc_entry("sysrq-trigger", S_IWUSR, NULL);
         if (entry)