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Ken'ichi Ohmichi fd59d231f8 Add vmcoreinfo
This patch set frees the restriction that makedumpfile users should install a
vmlinux file (including the debugging information) into each system.

makedumpfile command is the dump filtering feature for kdump.  It creates a
small dumpfile by filtering unnecessary pages for the analysis.  To
distinguish unnecessary pages, it needs a vmlinux file including the debugging
information.  These days, the debugging package becomes a huge file, and it is
hard to install it into each system.

To solve the problem, kdump developers discussed it at lkml and kexec-ml.  As
the result, we reached the conclusion that necessary information for dump
filtering (called "vmcoreinfo") should be embedded into the first kernel file
and it should be accessed through /proc/vmcore during the second kernel.
(http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.0/1806.html)

Dan Aloni created the patch set for the above implementation.
(http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.1/1053.html)

And I updated it for multi architectures and memory models.
(http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000479.html)

Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>
Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
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alpha Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2007-10-16 11:23:06 -07:00
arm Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters 2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
avr32 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2007-10-16 11:23:06 -07:00
blackfin Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2007-10-16 11:23:06 -07:00
cris Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2007-10-16 11:23:06 -07:00
frv Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2007-10-16 11:23:06 -07:00
h8300 kbuild: enable 'make AFLAGS=...' to add additional options to AS 2007-10-15 21:59:31 +02:00
i386 KCONFIG: Make "Instrumentation support" non-EXPERIMENTAL 2007-10-17 08:42:47 -07:00
ia64 Add vmcoreinfo 2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
m32r Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2007-10-16 11:23:06 -07:00
m68k Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2007-10-16 11:23:06 -07:00
m68knommu kbuild: enable 'make AFLAGS=...' to add additional options to AS 2007-10-15 21:59:31 +02:00
mips core_pattern: ignore RLIMIT_CORE if core_pattern is a pipe 2007-10-17 08:42:50 -07:00
parisc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2007-10-16 11:23:06 -07:00
powerpc powerpc: Use linux/elfcore-compat.h 2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
ppc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2007-10-16 11:23:06 -07:00
s390 oom: move prototypes to appropriate header file 2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
sh Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters 2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
sh64 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2007-10-16 11:23:06 -07:00
sparc KCONFIG: Make "Instrumentation support" non-EXPERIMENTAL 2007-10-17 08:42:47 -07:00
sparc64 core_pattern: ignore RLIMIT_CORE if core_pattern is a pipe 2007-10-17 08:42:50 -07:00
um Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2007-10-16 11:23:06 -07:00
v850 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2007-10-16 11:23:06 -07:00
x86 Add vmcoreinfo 2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
x86_64 KCONFIG: Make "Instrumentation support" non-EXPERIMENTAL 2007-10-17 08:42:47 -07:00
xtensa Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2007-10-16 11:23:06 -07:00