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Vivek Goyalbdd490a2014-01-23 15:56:01 -08001What: /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo
2Date: October 2007
3KernelVersion: 2.6.24
4Contact: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
5 Kexec Mailing List <kexec@lists.infradead.org>
6 Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Mauro Carvalho Chehabed66bcd2019-06-13 23:04:07 -03007Description:
Vivek Goyalbdd490a2014-01-23 15:56:01 -08008 Shows physical address and size of vmcoreinfo ELF note.
9 First value contains physical address of note in hex and
10 second value contains the size of note in hex. This ELF
11 note info is parsed by second kernel and exported to user
12 space as part of ELF note in /proc/vmcore file. This note
13 contains various information like struct size, symbol
14 values, page size etc.