[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>
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c b/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
index 94b570a..a345355 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 @@
(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)