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| author | Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> | 2005-06-25 14:58:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-06-25 16:24:54 -0700 |
| commit | 50b1fdbd81edcc8bd343ca44aca2b87a29e2f15c (patch) | |
| tree | fc5da6014f015171574c337be1c3abce5573ec99 /Documentation | |
| parent | 72658e9d5004fc0dd807bea9eda49e6a52e40103 (diff) | |
| download | linux-50b1fdbd81edcc8bd343ca44aca2b87a29e2f15c.tar.bz2 | |
[PATCH] kdump: Accessing dump file in linear raw format (/dev/oldmem)
Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>
This patch contains the code that enables us to access the previous kernel's
memory as /dev/oldmem.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devices.txt | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt index bb67cf25010e..0f515175c72a 100644 --- a/Documentation/devices.txt +++ b/Documentation/devices.txt @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated. 9 = /dev/urandom Faster, less secure random number gen. 10 = /dev/aio Asyncronous I/O notification interface 11 = /dev/kmsg Writes to this come out as printk's + 12 = /dev/oldmem Access to crash dump from kexec kernel 1 block RAM disk 0 = /dev/ram0 First RAM disk 1 = /dev/ram1 Second RAM disk |