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authorOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>2018-08-21 21:55:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-08-22 10:52:46 -0700
commit23c85094fe1895caefdd19ef624ee687ec5f4507 (patch)
tree13a0d0b93980e585384310a021b3772dc37b9e54 /include/linux
parenteff4345e7fba0aac8665f00e8599b36946d9aaec (diff)
proc/kcore: add vmcoreinfo note to /proc/kcore
The vmcoreinfo information is useful for runtime debugging tools, not just for crash dumps. A lot of this information can be determined by other means, but this is much more convenient, and it only adds a page at most to the file. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fddbcd08eed76344863303878b12de1c1e2a04b6.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/crash_core.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/crash_core.h b/include/linux/crash_core.h
index b511f6d24b42..525510a9f965 100644
--- a/include/linux/crash_core.h
+++ b/include/linux/crash_core.h
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ phys_addr_t paddr_vmcoreinfo_note(void);
#define VMCOREINFO_CONFIG(name) \
vmcoreinfo_append_str("CONFIG_%s=y\n", #name)
+extern unsigned char *vmcoreinfo_data;
+extern size_t vmcoreinfo_size;
extern u32 *vmcoreinfo_note;
Elf_Word *append_elf_note(Elf_Word *buf, char *name, unsigned int type,