[PATCH] kdump: cleanups for dump file access in linear raw format
authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:24 +0000 (14:58 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:24:54 +0000 (16:24 -0700)
commit315c215c0a7324894541d43b0e720f20cafca92e
treeebfc01b5d4e19622a192b11ff467a17f67b918be
parent50b1fdbd81edcc8bd343ca44aca2b87a29e2f15c
[PATCH] kdump: cleanups for dump file access in linear raw format

Removed the dependency on backup region.  Now all the information is encoded
in ELF format.  /dev/oldmem is a dummy interface.  User space tool need to be
intelligent enough to parse the elf headers and read the relevant memory areas
with the help of /dev/oldmem.

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>
drivers/char/mem.c