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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/crash_core.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/crash_core.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/crash_core.h b/include/linux/crash_core.h index 541a197ba4a2..4090a42578a8 100644 --- a/include/linux/crash_core.h +++ b/include/linux/crash_core.h @@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ #define CRASH_CORE_NOTE_NAME_BYTES ALIGN(sizeof(CRASH_CORE_NOTE_NAME), 4) #define CRASH_CORE_NOTE_DESC_BYTES ALIGN(sizeof(struct elf_prstatus), 4) +/* + * The per-cpu notes area is a list of notes terminated by a "NULL" + * note header. For kdump, the code in vmcore.c runs in the context + * of the second kernel to combine them into one note. + */ #define CRASH_CORE_NOTE_BYTES ((CRASH_CORE_NOTE_HEAD_BYTES * 2) + \ CRASH_CORE_NOTE_NAME_BYTES + \ CRASH_CORE_NOTE_DESC_BYTES) |