[PATCH v31 09/12] arm64: kdump: provide /proc/vmcore file

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu Feb 2 04:08:50 PST 2017


On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 12:03:20PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 03:24:09PM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 07:21:22PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 09:46:28PM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:

> > > > +/*
> > > > + * reserve_elfcorehdr() - reserves memory for elf core header
> > > > + *
> > > > + * This function reserves elf core header given in "elfcorehdr=" kernel
> > > > + * command line parameter. This region contains all the information about
> > > > + * primary kernel's core image and is used by a dump capture kernel to
> > > > + * access the system memory on primary kernel.
> > > > + */

> Can you also fix the comment above reserve_elfcorehdr()? It refers to a
> non-existent kernel command line option.

... or rather, one that's handled by core code, not
reserve_elfcorehdr().

So more specifically, it would be nicer to have something like:

	/*
	 * reserve_elfcorehdr() - reserves memory for elf core header
	 *
	 * This function reserves the memory occupied by an elf core header
	 * described in the device tree. This region contains all the
	 * information about primary kernel's core image and is used by a dump
	 * capture kernel to access the system memory on primary kernel.
	 */

Thanks,
Mark.



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