1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 3b9ec81ba4fb..5497fb9b00a0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include <linux/bootmem.h>
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
 #include <linux/kexec.h>
+#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
 #include <asm/smp.h>
 #include <asm/percpu.h>
 #include <asm/sections.h>
@@ -501,3 +502,21 @@ void __init reserve_standard_io_resources(void)
 
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE
+/* elfcorehdr= specifies the location of elf core header
+ * stored by the crashed kernel. This option will be passed
+ * by kexec loader to the capture kernel.
+ */
+static int __init setup_elfcorehdr(char *arg)
+{
+        char *end;
+        if (!arg)
+                return -EINVAL;
+        elfcorehdr_addr = memparse(arg, &end);
+        return end > arg ? 0 : -EINVAL;
+}
+early_param("elfcorehdr", setup_elfcorehdr);
+#endif
+
+
+