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| author | Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-04-02 16:58:57 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-04-02 19:05:04 -0700 |
| commit | 04d491ab2a53008a1aa98ac09561768c7f3adda3 (patch) | |
| tree | ab8fff6fb8674c8061b733ce64d6d6fba9d68ff3 /kernel | |
| parent | 23c36c1aec895fd52d7dd8cd3ce4bbce43c969fd (diff) | |
kexec: add dmesg log symbols to /proc/vmcoreinfo lists
It would be nice to be able to extract the dmesg log from a vmcore file
without needing to keep the debug symbols for the running kernel handy all
the time. We have a facility to do this in /proc/vmcore. This patch adds
the log_buf and log_end symbols to the vmcoreinfo area so that tools (like
makedumpfile) can easily extract the dmesg logs from a vmcore image.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: several fixes and cleanups]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix unused log_buf_kexec_setup()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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 93eed85fe017..589832aac41f 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 e3602d0755b0..a5f61a9acedb 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); |