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authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>2005-06-25 14:58:12 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-25 16:24:51 -0700
commit625f1c8219d95300ed32e4c67eb62a50ded095ba (patch)
tree2e303a649604cabc922f2ade67435eaf83bbfa98 /kernel/ksysfs.c
parentcf13f0eaffa31bf6a145c53c589654b11c72ddc7 (diff)
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[PATCH] Kdump: Export crash notes section address through sysfs
o Following patch exports kexec global variable "crash_notes" to user space through sysfs as kernel attribute in /sys/kernel. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/ksysfs.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/ksysfs.c13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/ksysfs.c b/kernel/ksysfs.c
index 1f064a63f8cf..015fb69ad94d 100644
--- a/kernel/ksysfs.c
+++ b/kernel/ksysfs.c
@@ -30,6 +30,16 @@ static ssize_t hotplug_seqnum_show(struct subsystem *subsys, char *page)
KERNEL_ATTR_RO(hotplug_seqnum);
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
+#include <asm/kexec.h>
+
+static ssize_t crash_notes_show(struct subsystem *subsys, char *page)
+{
+ return sprintf(page, "%p\n", (void *)crash_notes);
+}
+KERNEL_ATTR_RO(crash_notes);
+#endif
+
decl_subsys(kernel, NULL, NULL);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernel_subsys);
@@ -37,6 +47,9 @@ static struct attribute * kernel_attrs[] = {
#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG
&hotplug_seqnum_attr.attr,
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
+ &crash_notes_attr.attr,
+#endif
NULL
};