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This patch allows Linux to act as a crash kernel for use with kdump. Userspace will let the crash kernel know about the memory region it can use through linux,usable-memory property on the /memory node (overriding its reg property), and about the memory region where the elf core header of the previous kernel is saved, through a reserved-memory node with a compatible string of "linux,elfcorehdr". This approach is the least invasive and re-uses functionality already present. I tested this on riscv64 qemu and it works as expected, you may test it by retrieving the dmesg of the previous kernel through /proc/vmcore, using the vmcore-dmesg utility from kexec-tools. Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mick@ics.forth.gr> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.