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Message-ID: <20140115163427.GA3180@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:34:27 -0500 From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com> To: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Kexec Mailing List <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> Cc: "Ken'ichi Ohmichi" <oomichi@....nes.nec.co.jp> Subject: [PATCH] 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: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com> --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-vmcoreinfo | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-vmcoreinfo =================================================================== --- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.6/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-vmcoreinfo 2014-01-15 11:30:22.402206445 -0500 @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +What: /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo +Date: October 2007 +KernelVersion: 2.6.24 +Contact: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@....nes.nec.co.jp> + Kexec Mailing List <kexec@...ts.infradead.org> + Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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