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Baoquan He
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In kdump kernel, /proc/vmcore is an elf file mapping the crashed kernel's old memory content. Its elf header is constructed in 1st kernel and passed to kdump kernel via elfcorehdr_addr. Config CRASH_DUMP enables the code of 1st kernel's old memory accessing in different architectures. Currently, config FA_DUMP has dependency on CRASH_DUMP because fadump needs access global variable 'elfcorehdr_addr' to judge if it's in kdump kernel within function is_kdump_kernel(). In the current kernel/crash_dump.c, variable 'elfcorehdr_addr' is defined, and function setup_elfcorehdr() used to parse kernel parameter to fetch the passed value of elfcorehdr_addr. Only for accessing elfcorehdr_addr, FA_DUMP really doesn't have to depends on CRASH_DUMP. To remove the dependency of FA_DUMP on CRASH_DUMP to avoid confusion, rename kernel/crash_dump.c to kernel/elfcorehdr.c, and build it when CONFIG_VMCORE_INFO is ebabled. With this, FA_DUMP doesn't need to depend on CRASH_DUMP. [bhe@redhat.com: power/fadump: make FA_DUMP select CRASH_DUMP] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Zb8D1ASrgX0qVm9z@MiWiFi-R3L-srv Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124051254.67105-4-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
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.