[PATCH] kdump: Accessing dump file in linear raw format (/dev/oldmem)

Hariprasad Nellitheertha <[email protected]>

This patch contains the code that enables us to access the previous kernel's
memory as /dev/oldmem.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Vivek Goyal 2005-06-25 14:58:23 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated.
9 = /dev/urandom Faster, less secure random number gen.
10 = /dev/aio Asyncronous I/O notification interface
11 = /dev/kmsg Writes to this come out as printk's
12 = /dev/oldmem Access to crash dump from kexec kernel
1 block RAM disk
0 = /dev/ram0 First RAM disk
1 = /dev/ram1 Second RAM disk