[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, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/crash_dump.h b/include/linux/crash_dump.h
index 3f25fd1eaa4b..534d750d922d 100644
--- a/include/linux/crash_dump.h
+++ b/include/linux/crash_dump.h
@@ -7,8 +7,12 @@
 #include <linux/device.h>
 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
 
+#define ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX        (-1ULL)
 extern unsigned long long elfcorehdr_addr;
 extern ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long, char *, size_t,
                                                 unsigned long, int);
+extern struct file_operations proc_vmcore_operations;
+extern struct proc_dir_entry *proc_vmcore;
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP */
 #endif /* LINUX_CRASHDUMP_H */