[RFC][PATCH 05/14] Documentation: kmemdump: add section for coreimage ELF
Eugen Hristev
eugen.hristev at linaro.org
Tue Apr 22 04:31:47 PDT 2025
Add section describing the utility of coreimage ELF generation for kmemdump.
Signed-off-by: Eugen Hristev <eugen.hristev at linaro.org>
---
Documentation/debug/kmemdump.rst | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/debug/kmemdump.rst b/Documentation/debug/kmemdump.rst
index dfee755a1be1..b67dc166905a 100644
--- a/Documentation/debug/kmemdump.rst
+++ b/Documentation/debug/kmemdump.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ kmemdump allows a backend to be connected, this backend interfaces a
specific hardware that can debug or dump the memory registered into
kmemdump.
+kmemdump can also prepare specific regions of the kernel that can be
+put together to form a minimal core image file. To achieve this, the first
+region is an ELF header with program headers for each region, and specific
+ELF NOTE section with vmcoreinfo. To enable this feature, use
+`CONFIG_DRIVER_KMEMDUMP_COREIMAGE`.
+
kmemdump Internals
=============
--
2.43.0
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