fadump: Add PT_NOTE program header for vmcoreinfo

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Introduce a PT_NOTE program header that points to physical address of
vmcoreinfo_note buffer declared in kernel/kexec.c. The vmcoreinfo
note buffer is populated during crash_fadump() at the time of system
crash.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

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Mahesh Salgaonkar 2012-02-16 01:14:53 +00:00 • committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c

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