2) netlink_autobind() needs to propagate the error return from
netlink_insert(). Otherwise, callers will not see the error
as they should and thus try to operate on a socket with a zero pid,
which is very bad.
However, it should not propagate -EBUSY. If two threads race
to autobind the socket, that is fine. This is consistent with the
autobind behavior in other protocols.
So bug #1 above, combined with this one, resulted in hangs
on netlink_sendmsg() calls to the rtnetlink socket. We'd try
to do the user sendmsg() with the socket's pid set to zero,
later we do a socket lookup using that pid (via the value we
stashed away in NETLINK_CB(skb).pid), but that won't give us the
user socket, it will give us the rtnetlink socket. So when we
try to wake up the receive queue, we dive back into rtnetlink_rcv()
which tries to recursively take the rtnetlink semaphore.
Thanks to Jakub Jelink for providing backtraces. Also, thanks to
Herbert Xu for supplying debugging patches to help track this down,
and also finding a mistake in an earlier version of this fix.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adrian Bunk [Sun, 26 Jun 2005 10:27:22 +0000 (03:27 -0700)]
[PATCH] remove redundant info from SubmittingPatches
Since the Trivial Patch Monkey is mentioned both in steps 4. and 5., I
removed it from step4 (Select e-mail destination), since it should go under
'Select your CC list'.
Signed-off-by: Cosmin Nicolaescu <cos@camelot.homelinux.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
1. Establish a simple API for process freezing defined in linux/include/sched.h:
frozen(process) Check for frozen process
freezing(process) Check if a process is being frozen
freeze(process) Tell a process to freeze (go to refrigerator)
thaw_process(process) Restart process
frozen_process(process) Process is frozen now
2. Remove all references to PF_FREEZE and PF_FROZEN from all
kernel sources except sched.h
3. Fix numerous locations where try_to_freeze is manually done by a driver
4. Remove the argument that is no longer necessary from two function calls.
5. Some whitespace cleanup
6. Clear potential race in refrigerator (provides an open window of PF_FREEZE
cleared before setting PF_FROZEN, recalc_sigpending does not check
PF_FROZEN).
This patch does not address the problem of freeze_processes() violating the rule
that a task may only modify its own flags by setting PF_FREEZE. This is not clean
in an SMP environment. freeze(process) is therefore not SMP safe!
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Domen Puncer [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:36 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] list_for_each_entry: fs-dquot.c
Make code more readable with list_for_each_entry_safe.
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Maximilian Attems <janitor@sternwelten.at> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] serial/68328serial: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep_interruptible()
Use msleep_interruptible() instead of schedule_timeout() in send_break() to
guarantee the task delays as expected. Change @duration's units to
milliseconds, and modify arguments in callers appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] serial/68360serial: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep_interruptible()
Use msleep_interruptible() instead of schedule_timeout() in send_break() to
guarantee the task delays as expected. Change @duration's units to
milliseconds, and modify arguments in callers appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:30 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] Remove duplicate file in Documentation/networking
The files wanpipe.txt and wan-router.txt in Documentation/networking contain
the exact same information (diff between the two shows no document is "Linux
WAN Router Utilities Package" and therefor the name wan-router.txt is more
appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:29 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] Remove duplicate file in Documentation/networking (00-INDEX)
wanpipe.txt and wan-router.txt in Documentation/networking contain the exact
same information (diff between the two shows no
Documentation/networking/00-INDEX as pointed out by Randy Dunlap.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:27 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] sound/oss/cmpci: Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant
Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant from dma-mapping.h when calling
pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108001993000001&r=1&w=2 for details
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:27 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] sound/oss/es1370: Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant
Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant from dma-mapping.h when calling
pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108001993000001&r=1&w=2 for details
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:26 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] sound/oss/es1371: Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant
Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant from dma-mapping.h when calling
pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108001993000001&r=1&w=2 for details
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:25 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] sound/oss/esssolo1: Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant
Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant from dma-mapping.h when calling
pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108001993000001&r=1&w=2 for details
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
J.A. Magallon [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:22 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] Kill signed chars
scripts/ is full of mismatches between char* params an signed char* arguments,
and viceversa. gcc4 now complaints loud about this. Patch below deletes all
those 'signed'.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:18 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/isdn/hisax/: possible cleanups
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- remove the compiled but unused st5481_hdlc.{c,h}
- kill enternow.h
- enternow_pci.c: kill InByte/OutByte/BYTE
- isdnl2.c: kill FreeSkb
- remove or #if 0 the following unused functions:
- config.c: IsdnCardState
- ipacx.c: ipacx_new_ph
- ipacx.c: dch_bh
- ipacx.c: setup_ipacx
- isdnl2.c: IsRR
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Kai Germaschewski <kai@germaschewski.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:16 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/char/ip2*: cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- i2cmd.c: #if 0 the unused function i2cmdUnixFlags
- i2cmd.c: make the needlessly global funciton i2cmdBaudDef static
- ip2main.c: remove dead code that wasn't reachable due to an #ifdef
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:15 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] kfree cleanups for drivers/firmware/
Here's a patch with kfree() cleanups for drivers/firmware/efivars.c Patch
removes redundant NULL checks before kfree and also makes a small
whitespace cleanup - moves two statements on same line to separate lines.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:11 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] change the SOUND_PRIME handling
SOUND_PRIME (for OSS) is a tristate.
This doesn't make much sense if most users are checking for
SOUND_PRIME!=0.
This patch changes the semantics of SOUND_PRIME to being a limit for all
OSS modules, IOW: SOUND_PRIME=m does now say that all OSS drivers can
only be modular.
As a side effect, since SOUND_PRIME already depends on SOUND, there's no
longer a reason for drivers depending on SOUND_PRIME to additionally
depend on SOUND.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:10 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c: cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- remove the following unused global functions:
- blkdev_scsi_issue_flush_fn
- __blk_attempt_remerge
- remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
- blk_phys_contig_segment
- blk_hw_contig_segment
- blkdev_scsi_issue_flush_fn
- __blk_attempt_remerge
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:06 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] fs/jffs/: cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make needlessly global functions static
- provide some debugging helper functions only for appropriate
values of CONFIG_JFFS_FS_VERBOSE
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:04 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/char/nvram.c: possible cleanups
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make the needlessly global function __nvram_set_checksum static
- #if 0 the unused global function nvram_set_checksum
- remove the EXPORT_SYMBOL's for both functions
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Domen Puncer [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:59 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] x86_64: coding style and whitespace fixups
Remove some of the unnecessary differences between arch/i386 and
arch/x86_64. This patch fixes more whitespace issues, some miscellaneous
typos, a wrong URL and a factually incorrect statement about the current
boot sector code.
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:52 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/char/isicom.c: section fixes
This patch fixes the following bugs:
- __exit unregister_ioregion and unregister_drivers were called by
__init isicom_init
- __init isicom_init was called by __devinit isicom_setup
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:50 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/scsi/initio.c: cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- remove or #if 0 the following unused functions:
- tul_pop_pend_scb
- tul_device_reset
- tul_reset_scsi_bus
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:49 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] remove redundant NULL checks before kfree() in sound/ and avoid casting pointers about to be kfree()'ed
Checking a pointer for NULL before calling kfree() on it is redundant,
kfree() deals with NULL pointers just fine.
This patch removes such checks from sound/
This patch also makes another, but closely related, change.
It avoids casting pointers about to be kfree()'ed.
Domen Puncer [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:42 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] char/tty_io: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep_interruptible()
Use msleep_interruptible() instead of schedule_timeout() in send_break() to
guarantee the task delays as expected. Change @duration's units to
milliseconds, and modify arguments in callers appropriately. Patch is
compile-tested.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Domen Puncer [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:41 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] char/ds1620: use msleep() instead of schedule_timeout()
Not sure why any driver needs to sleep for *two* ticks, so let's fix it.
Use msleep() instead of schedule_timeout() to guarantee the task delays as
expected. Signals are never checked for by the callers or in the function
itself, so use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE instead of TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE. The
delay is presumed to have been written when HZ==100, and thus has been
multiplied by 10 to pass to msleep().
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
randy_dunlap [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:39 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] au1100fb: convert to C99 inits.
au1100: use C99 struct init.
Signed-off-by: randy_dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:35 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/isdn/i4l/: possible cleanups
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- remove the following unused global function:
- isdn_audio.c: isdn_audio_2adpcm_flush
- remove the following unused struct:
- isdn_net.c: isdn_concap_demand_dial_dops
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:35 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/isdn/pcbit/: possible cleanups
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make some needlessly global functions static
- remove the following unused global functions:
- callbacks.c: cb_out_3
- capi.c: capi_decode_disc_conf
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:34 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/isdn/sc/: possible cleanups
This patch contains the following possible cleanips:
- make some needlessly global code static
- remove the compiled but completely unused debug.c
- remove or #if 0 the following unused global functions:
- command.c: loopback
- command.c: loadproc
- init.c: irq_supported
- packet.c: print_skb
- shmem.c: memset_shmem
- timer.c: trace_timer
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Nico Golde [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:33 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] cpufreq: governors documentation fixes
I corrected a small error and enhanced the govenor.txt file with the
ondemand daemon because the kernel configs link to the documentation but
ondemand wasn't documentated. Feel free to include the patch in the
attachment.
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Dave Jones [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:30 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] Fix vesafb/mtrr scaling problem.
vesafb will do really silly things like..
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,8000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,4000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,2000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,1000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,800000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,400000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,200000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,100000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,80000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,40000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,20000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,10000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,8000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,4000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,2000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,1000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x800 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x400 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x200 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x100 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x80 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x40 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x20 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x10 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x8 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x4 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x2 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x1 base: 0xe0000000
Stop scaling down at PAGE_SIZE.
Also fix up some broken indentation.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Alexander Nyberg [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:27 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kdump: Save trap information for later analysis
If we are faulting in kernel it is quite possible this will lead to a
panic. Save trap number, cr2 (in case of page fault) and error_code in the
current thread (these fields already exist for signal delivery but are not
used here).
This helps later kdump crash analyzing from user-space (a script has been
submitted to dig this info out in gdb).
Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: <fastboot@lists.osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Alexander Nyberg [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:26 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kdump: Use real pt_regs from exception
Makes kexec_crashdump() take a pt_regs * as an argument. This allows to
get exact register state at the point of the crash. If we come from direct
panic assertion NULL will be passed and the current registers saved before
crashdump.
This hooks into two places:
die(): check the conditions under which we will panic when calling
do_exit and go there directly with the pt_regs that caused the fatal
fault.
die_nmi(): If we receive an NMI lockup while in the kernel use the
pt_regs and go directly to crash_kexec(). We're probably nested up badly
at this point so this might be the only chance to escape with proper
information.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Vivek Goyal [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:24 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kdump: cleanups for dump file access in linear raw format
Removed the dependency on backup region. Now all the information is encoded
in ELF format. /dev/oldmem is a dummy interface. User space tool need to be
intelligent enough to parse the elf headers and read the relevant memory areas
with the help of /dev/oldmem.
Vivek Goyal [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:22 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kdump: Parse elf32 headers and export through /proc/vmcore
o Adds support for parsing core ELF32 headers.
o I am expecting ELF32 support to go away down the line. This patch has been
introduced for testing purposes as gdb can not parse ELF64 headers for
i386. When a decent user space solution is available, ELF32 support
can go away.
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