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authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>2005-06-25 14:58:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-25 16:24:53 -0700
commit2030eae52b416a9a9f0ffda74c982b7f1e19496d (patch)
tree3715724cb19e9165873635fcdf7e9e30d86f7710 /kernel
parent60e64d46a58236e3c718074372cab6a5b56a3b15 (diff)
downloadlinux-2030eae52b416a9a9f0ffda74c982b7f1e19496d.tar.bz2
[PATCH] Retrieve elfcorehdr address from command line
This patch adds support for retrieving the address of elf core header if one is passed in command line. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/crash_dump.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/crash_dump.c b/kernel/crash_dump.c
index 5a1e6d5d203e..10b966c3744c 100644
--- a/kernel/crash_dump.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_dump.c
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
+/* Stores the physical address of elf header of crash image. */
+unsigned long long elfcorehdr_addr;
+
/*
* Copy a page from "oldmem". For this page, there is no pte mapped
* in the current kernel. We stitch up a pte, similar to kmap_atomic.