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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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irq Fix CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ trigger on free_irq() 2007-10-17 08:42:49 -07:00
power hibernation doesn't even build on frv - tons of helpers are missing 2007-09-26 09:22:04 -07:00
time Use num_possible_cpus() instead of NR_CPUS for timer distribution 2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
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acct.c Cleanup non-arch xtime uses, use get_seconds() or current_kernel_time(). 2007-07-25 10:09:20 -07:00
audit.c [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious 2007-10-10 21:15:29 -07:00
audit.h Audit: add TTY input auditing 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
auditfilter.c [PATCH] allow audit filtering on bit & operations 2007-07-22 09:57:02 -04:00
auditsc.c Clean up duplicate includes in kernel/ 2007-10-17 08:42:48 -07:00
capability.c
compat.c signal/timer/event: timerfd compat code 2007-05-11 08:29:36 -07:00
configs.c use simple_read_from_buffer in kernel/ 2007-05-09 12:30:49 -07:00
cpu.c PM: Fix dependencies of CONFIG_SUSPEND and CONFIG_HIBERNATION 2007-08-31 01:42:22 -07:00
cpuset.c oom: compare cpuset mems_allowed instead of exclusive ancestors 2007-10-17 08:42:46 -07:00
delayacct.c sched: clean up schedstats, cnt -> count 2007-10-15 17:00:12 +02:00
die_notifier.c move die notifier handling to common code 2007-05-08 11:15:04 -07:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c exec: RT sub-thread can livelock and monopolize CPU on exec 2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters 2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
futex_compat.c robust futex thread exit race 2007-10-01 07:52:23 -07:00
futex.c robust futex thread exit race 2007-10-01 07:52:23 -07:00
hrtimer.c [KTIME]: Introduce ktime_sub_ns and ktime_sub_us 2007-10-10 16:48:12 -07:00
itimer.c The scheduled -EINVAL for invalid timevals in setitimer 2007-05-08 11:15:13 -07:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms: make KSYM_NAME_LEN include space for trailing '\0' 2007-07-17 10:23:03 -07:00
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.preempt [PATCH] sched: arch preempt notifier mechanism 2007-07-26 13:40:43 +02:00
kexec.c Add vmcoreinfo 2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
kfifo.c is_power_of_2: kernel/kfifo.c 2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
kmod.c Restore call_usermodehelper_pipe() behaviour 2007-09-11 17:21:20 -07:00
kprobes.c kprobes: support kretprobe blacklist 2007-10-16 09:43:10 -07:00
ksysfs.c Add vmcoreinfo 2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
kthread.c kthread: silence bogus section mismatch warning 2007-07-31 15:39:42 -07:00
latency.c
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c lockdep: Avoid /proc/lockdep & lock_stat infinite output 2007-10-11 22:11:11 +02:00
lockdep.c lockdep: syscall exit check 2007-10-11 22:11:12 +02:00
Makefile user namespace: add the framework 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
module.c Add /sys/module/name/notes 2007-10-17 08:42:50 -07:00
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c lockdep: fixup mutex annotations 2007-10-11 22:11:12 +02:00
mutex.h
nsproxy.c [NET]: Add network namespace clone & unshare support. 2007-10-10 16:52:46 -07:00
panic.c Report that kernel is tainted if there was an OOPS 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
params.c modules: better error messages when modules fail to load due to a sysfs problem. 2007-07-30 14:25:23 -07:00
pid.c namespace: ensure clone_flags are always stored in an unsigned long 2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
posix-cpu-timers.c sched: make posix-cpu-timers use CFS's accounting information 2007-07-09 18:51:58 +02:00
posix-timers.c SLAB_PANIC more (proc, posix-timers, shmem) 2007-10-17 08:42:47 -07:00
printk.c printk: add interfaces for external access to the log buffer 2007-10-17 08:42:50 -07:00
profile.c Memoryless nodes: Allow profiling data to fall back to other nodes 2007-10-16 09:42:58 -07:00
ptrace.c m32r: convert to generic sys_ptrace 2007-10-16 09:43:04 -07:00
rcupdate.c Clean up duplicate includes in kernel/ 2007-10-17 08:42:48 -07:00
rcutorture.c Make rcutorture RNG use temporal entropy 2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
relay.c Fix a use after free bug in kernel->userspace relay file support 2007-07-31 15:39:42 -07:00
resource.c memory unplug: memory hotplug cleanup 2007-10-16 09:43:01 -07:00
rtmutex_common.h FUTEX: Tidy up the code 2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.c kernel/rtmutex-debug.c: cleanups 2007-10-17 08:42:50 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
rtmutex.c FUTEX: Tidy up the code 2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c lockstat: hook into spinlock_t, rwlock_t, rwsem and mutex 2007-07-19 10:04:49 -07:00
sched_debug.c Make scheduler debug file operations const 2007-10-15 17:00:19 +02:00
sched_fair.c sched: reintroduce cache-hot affinity 2007-10-15 17:00:18 +02:00
sched_idletask.c sched: mark scheduling classes as const 2007-10-15 17:00:12 +02:00
sched_rt.c sched: tidy up SCHED_RR 2007-10-15 17:00:13 +02:00
sched_stats.h sched: clean up schedstats, cnt -> count 2007-10-15 17:00:12 +02:00
sched.c cpuset: remove sched domain hooks from cpusets 2007-10-16 09:43:09 -07:00
seccomp.c make seccomp zerocost in schedule 2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
signal.c do_sigaction: don't worry about signal_pending() 2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
softirq.c [KERNEL]: Unexport raise_softirq_irqoff 2007-10-10 16:49:18 -07:00
softlockup.c softlockup: add a /proc tuning parameter 2007-10-17 08:42:47 -07:00
spinlock.c lockstat: hook into spinlock_t, rwlock_t, rwsem and mutex 2007-07-19 10:04:49 -07:00
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c Fix stop_machine_run problem with naughty real time process 2007-07-16 09:05:41 -07:00
sys_ni.c diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures 2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
sys.c Fix SMP poweroff hangs 2007-10-01 07:52:23 -07:00
sysctl.c softlockup: add a /proc tuning parameter 2007-10-17 08:42:47 -07:00
taskstats.c Clean up duplicate includes in kernel/ 2007-10-17 08:42:48 -07:00
time.c Clean up duplicate includes in kernel/ 2007-10-17 08:42:48 -07:00
timer.c Pull ia64-clocksource into release branch 2007-07-20 11:26:47 -07:00
tsacct.c Cleanup non-arch xtime uses, use get_seconds() or current_kernel_time(). 2007-07-25 10:09:20 -07:00
uid16.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
user_namespace.c Fix user namespace exiting OOPs 2007-09-19 11:24:18 -07:00
user.c sched: generate uevents for user creation/destruction 2007-10-15 17:00:18 +02:00
utsname_sysctl.c remove CONFIG_UTS_NS and CONFIG_IPC_NS 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
utsname.c Fix UTS corruption during clone(CLONE_NEWUTS) 2007-09-19 11:24:17 -07:00
wait.c Fix occurrences of "the the " 2007-05-09 08:57:56 +02:00
workqueue.c fix bogus hotplug cpu warning 2007-08-27 10:27:48 -07:00