Commit bdd490ad authored by Vivek Goyal's avatar Vivek Goyal Committed by Linus Torvalds

kdump: add /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo ABI documentation

/sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo was introduced long back but there is no ABI
documentation.  This patch adds the documentation.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 77019967
What: /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo
Date: October 2007
KernelVersion: 2.6.24
Contact: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Kexec Mailing List <kexec@lists.infradead.org>
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Description
Shows physical address and size of vmcoreinfo ELF note.
First value contains physical address of note in hex and
second value contains the size of note in hex. This ELF
note info is parsed by second kernel and exported to user
space as part of ELF note in /proc/vmcore file. This note
contains various information like struct size, symbol
values, page size etc.
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