summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/kernel/ksysfs.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorKen'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>2007-10-16 23:27:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-17 08:42:54 -0700
commitfd59d231f81cb02870b9cf15f456a897f3669b4e (patch)
tree5713c13bd678774f1ba3c42bfff5008c1812deae /kernel/ksysfs.c
parent0e647c04f665e9b3451a1ebe8252b38ffe0207c8 (diff)
downloadlwn-fd59d231f81cb02870b9cf15f456a897f3669b4e.tar.gz
lwn-fd59d231f81cb02870b9cf15f456a897f3669b4e.zip
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/ksysfs.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/ksysfs.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/ksysfs.c b/kernel/ksysfs.c
index 6046939d0804..38b38f957ef0 100644
--- a/kernel/ksysfs.c
+++ b/kernel/ksysfs.c
@@ -61,6 +61,15 @@ static ssize_t kexec_crash_loaded_show(struct kset *kset, char *page)
return sprintf(page, "%d\n", !!kexec_crash_image);
}
KERNEL_ATTR_RO(kexec_crash_loaded);
+
+static ssize_t vmcoreinfo_show(struct kset *kset, char *page)
+{
+ return sprintf(page, "%lx %x\n",
+ paddr_vmcoreinfo_note(),
+ vmcoreinfo_max_size);
+}
+KERNEL_ATTR_RO(vmcoreinfo);
+
#endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC */
/*
@@ -96,6 +105,7 @@ static struct attribute * kernel_attrs[] = {
#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
&kexec_loaded_attr.attr,
&kexec_crash_loaded_attr.attr,
+ &vmcoreinfo_attr.attr,
#endif
NULL
};