[PATCH] kdump: x86_64: add elfcorehdr command line option

- elfcorehdr= specifies the location of elf core header stored by the
  crashed kernel.  This command line option will be passed by the kexec-tools
  to capture kernel.

Changes in this version :

- Added more comments in kernel-parameters.txt and in code.

Signed-off-by: Murali M Chakravarthy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Vivek Goyal 2006-01-09 20:51:47 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit aac04b32f3
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@ -475,10 +475,11 @@ running once the system is up.
See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and
Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
elfcorehdr= [IA-32]
elfcorehdr= [IA-32, X86_64]
Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
image elf header.
See Documentation/kdump.txt for details.
image elf header. Generally kexec loader will
pass this option to capture kernel.
See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
Format: {"0" | "1"}