[PATCH v26 4/7] arm64: kdump: add VMCOREINFO's for user-space coredump tools

James Morse james.morse at arm.com
Fri Sep 16 09:04:45 PDT 2016


On 07/09/16 05:29, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> For the current crash utility, we need to know, at least,
>   - kimage_voffset
>   - PHYS_OFFSET
> to handle the contents of core dump file (/proc/vmcore) correctly due to
> the introduction of KASLR (CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) in v4.6.
> This patch puts them as VMCOREINFO's into the file.
> 
>   - VA_BITS
> is also added for makedumpfile command.
> More VMCOREINFO's may be added later.


Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>


Thanks,

James



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