From 04d491ab2a53008a1aa98ac09561768c7f3adda3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Horman Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:58:57 -0700 Subject: kexec: add dmesg log symbols to /proc/vmcoreinfo lists It would be nice to be able to extract the dmesg log from a vmcore file without needing to keep the debug symbols for the running kernel handy all the time. We have a facility to do this in /proc/vmcore. This patch adds the log_buf and log_end symbols to the vmcoreinfo area so that tools (like makedumpfile) can easily extract the dmesg logs from a vmcore image. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: several fixes and cleanups] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix unused log_buf_kexec_setup()] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Neil Horman Cc: Simon Horman Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Cc: Neil Horman Cc: Simon Horman Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/kexec.c | 1 + kernel/printk.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c index 93eed85fe017..589832aac41f 100644 --- a/kernel/kexec.c +++ b/kernel/kexec.c @@ -1409,6 +1409,7 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init(void) VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(list_head, prev); VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(vm_struct, addr); VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(zone.free_area, MAX_ORDER); + log_buf_kexec_setup(); VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(free_area.free_list, MIGRATE_TYPES); VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(NR_FREE_PAGES); VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(PG_lru); diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index e3602d0755b0..a5f61a9acedb 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include @@ -135,6 +136,24 @@ static char *log_buf = __log_buf; static int log_buf_len = __LOG_BUF_LEN; static unsigned logged_chars; /* Number of chars produced since last read+clear operation */ +#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC +/* + * This appends the listed symbols to /proc/vmcoreinfo + * + * /proc/vmcoreinfo is used by various utiilties, like crash and makedumpfile to + * obtain access to symbols that are otherwise very difficult to locate. These + * symbols are specifically used so that utilities can access and extract the + * dmesg log from a vmcore file after a crash. + */ +void log_buf_kexec_setup(void) +{ + VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_buf); + VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_end); + VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_buf_len); + VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(logged_chars); +} +#endif + static int __init log_buf_len_setup(char *str) { unsigned size = memparse(str, &str); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b