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| author | Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> | 2005-06-25 14:58:20 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-06-25 16:24:53 -0700 |
| commit | 2030eae52b416a9a9f0ffda74c982b7f1e19496d (patch) | |
| tree | 3715724cb19e9165873635fcdf7e9e30d86f7710 /arch/i386/kernel | |
| parent | 60e64d46a58236e3c718074372cab6a5b56a3b15 (diff) | |
[PATCH] Retrieve elfcorehdr address from command line
This patch adds support for retrieving the address of elf core header if one
is passed in command line.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c b/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c index 8d58a053e12..7306353c520 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ #include <linux/edd.h> #include <linux/nodemask.h> #include <linux/kexec.h> +#include <linux/crash_dump.h> #include <video/edid.h> @@ -881,6 +882,13 @@ static void __init parse_cmdline_early (char ** cmdline_p) } } #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP + /* elfcorehdr= specifies the location of elf core header + * stored by the crashed kernel. + */ + else if (!memcmp(from, "elfcorehdr=", 11)) + elfcorehdr_addr = memparse(from+11, &from); +#endif /* * highmem=size forces highmem to be exactly 'size' bytes. |