[PATCH]: add dmesg log symbols to /proc/vmcoreinfo lists

[Simon Horman]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 04:21:27PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> Hey all-
> 	It would be nice to be able to extract the dmesg log from a vmcore file
> without needing to keep the debug symbols for the running kernel handy all the
> time.  We have a facility to do this in /proc/vmcore.  This patch adds the
> log_buf and log_end symbols to the vmcoreinfo area so that tools (like
> makedumpfile) can easily extract the dmesg logs from a vmcore image.
> 
> Regards
> Neil
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>

THis sounds reasonable to me.

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