kexec: remove KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC
authorWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:20:11 +0000 (17:20 -0800)
committerTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Mon, 9 Apr 2012 13:52:01 +0000 (07:52 -0600)
commit52789747a352732eb163b145c8b31789ad818e93
treebf544fb588bde354fd077a880845122c69ccceb9
parent6c0d0cf19659b39004976557ec31cebd814527e1
kexec: remove KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/944772

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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit a3dd3323058d281abd584b15ad4c5b65064d7a61)
Acked-by: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c
drivers/char/ramoops.c
drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c
include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
kernel/kexec.c