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authorWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>2012-01-12 17:20:11 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-12 20:13:11 -0800
commita3dd3323058d281abd584b15ad4c5b65064d7a61 (patch)
tree98c65337f9960db2d0ca55687314bb821f3e7c1f /kernel
parent9512938b885304f72c847379611d6018064af840 (diff)
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kexec: remove KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC
KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC is useless because we already save kernel messages inside /proc/vmcore, and it is unsafe to allow modules to do other stuffs in a crash dump scenario. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build] Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kexec.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index 090ee10d9604..20ed47ae252f 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
#include <linux/console.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
-#include <linux/kmsg_dump.h>
#include <linux/syscore_ops.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
@@ -1094,8 +1093,6 @@ void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
if (kexec_crash_image) {
struct pt_regs fixed_regs;
- kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC);
-
crash_setup_regs(&fixed_regs, regs);
crash_save_vmcoreinfo();
machine_crash_shutdown(&fixed_regs);