[PATCH] kdump: Routines for copying dump pages

This patch provides the interfaces necessary to read the dump contents,
treating it as a high memory device.

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, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/crash_dump.h b/include/linux/crash_dump.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7d983b817429
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/crash_dump.h
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#ifndef LINUX_CRASH_DUMP_H
+#define LINUX_CRASH_DUMP_H
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
+#include <linux/kexec.h>
+#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
+#include <linux/device.h>
+#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
+
+extern ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long, char *, size_t,
+                                                unsigned long, int);
+#endif /* CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP */
+#endif /* LINUX_CRASHDUMP_H */