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kexec: remove KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC
authorWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Thu, 8 Dec 2011 04:42:53 +0000 (15:42 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:43:36 +0000 (17:43 +1100)
commitf348a37c017fe9bf4509e7379ff9abc4e916e7c2
tree18a1d207d1581d8c7a82c0cd6ff1ccec57691ddd
parenta914d7f7ab3673c1b83d61342354f3a368b72dbb
kexec: remove KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC

KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC is useless because we already save kernel messages inside
/proc/vmcore, and it is unsafe to allow modules to do other stuffs in a
crash dump scenario.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build]
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c
drivers/char/ramoops.c
drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c
include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
kernel/kexec.c