[PATCH] kdump: export per cpu crash notes pointer through sysfs

- Kexec on panic functionality allocates memory for saving cpu registers in
  case of system crash event.  Address of this allocated memory needs to be
  exported to user space, which is used by kexec-tools.

- Previously, a single /sys/kernel/crash_notes entry was being exported as
  memory allocated was a single continuous array.  Now memory allocation being
  dyanmic and per cpu based, address of per cpu buffer is exported through
  "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/crash_notes"

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/ksysfs.c b/kernel/ksysfs.c
index 99af8b05eea..d5eeae0fa5b 100644
--- a/kernel/ksysfs.c
+++ b/kernel/ksysfs.c
@@ -51,16 +51,6 @@ static ssize_t uevent_helper_store(struct subsystem *subsys, const char *page, s
 KERNEL_ATTR_RW(uevent_helper);
 #endif
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
-#include <asm/kexec.h>
-
-static ssize_t crash_notes_show(struct subsystem *subsys, char *page)
-{
-	return sprintf(page, "%p\n", (void *)crash_notes);
-}
-KERNEL_ATTR_RO(crash_notes);
-#endif
-
 decl_subsys(kernel, NULL, NULL);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernel_subsys);
 
@@ -69,9 +59,6 @@ static struct attribute * kernel_attrs[] = {
 	&uevent_seqnum_attr.attr,
 	&uevent_helper_attr.attr,
 #endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
-	&crash_notes_attr.attr,
-#endif
 	NULL
 };