[PATCH] kexec: x86: snapshot registers during crash shutdown
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:59 +0000 (14:57 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:24:49 +0000 (16:24 -0700)
commit2c818b45a202b8f632b4031edcba8599efda42b7
treea5eb19193dcbf3b028ae90cb7969a38163b3ac21
parentc4ac4263a019c791e906f284bb03891d3c25a845
[PATCH] kexec: x86: snapshot registers during crash shutdown

After the kernel panics if we wish to generate an entire machine core file it
is very nice to know the register state at the time the machine crashed.

After long discussion it was realized that if you are going to be saving the
information anyway it is reasonable to store the information in a format that
it will be used and recognized in so the register state is stored in the
standard ELF note format.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
arch/i386/kernel/crash.c