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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/kexec.c | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/printk.c | 19 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c index 93eed85fe01..589832aac41 100644 --- a/kernel/kexec.c +++ b/kernel/kexec.c @@ -1409,6 +1409,7 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init(void) VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(list_head, prev); VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(vm_struct, addr); VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(zone.free_area, MAX_ORDER); + log_buf_kexec_setup(); VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(free_area.free_list, MIGRATE_TYPES); VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(NR_FREE_PAGES); VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(PG_lru); diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index e3602d0755b..a5f61a9aced 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ #include <linux/security.h> #include <linux/bootmem.h> #include <linux/syscalls.h> +#include <linux/kexec.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> @@ -135,6 +136,24 @@ static char *log_buf = __log_buf; static int log_buf_len = __LOG_BUF_LEN; static unsigned logged_chars; /* Number of chars produced since last read+clear operation */ +#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC +/* + * This appends the listed symbols to /proc/vmcoreinfo + * + * /proc/vmcoreinfo is used by various utiilties, like crash and makedumpfile to + * obtain access to symbols that are otherwise very difficult to locate. These + * symbols are specifically used so that utilities can access and extract the + * dmesg log from a vmcore file after a crash. + */ +void log_buf_kexec_setup(void) +{ + VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_buf); + VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_end); + VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_buf_len); + VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(logged_chars); +} +#endif + static int __init log_buf_len_setup(char *str) { unsigned size = memparse(str, &str); |