27 Apr, 2007

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  • s390 machines provide hardware support for creating Linux dumps on SCSI
    disks. For creating a dump a special purpose dump Linux is used. The first
    32 MB of memory are saved by the hardware before the dump Linux is
    booted. Via an SCLP interface, the saved memory can be accessed from
    Linux. This patch exports memory and registers of the crashed Linux to
    userspace via a debugfs file. For more information refer to
    Documentation/s390/zfcpdump.txt, which is included in this patch.

    Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu
    Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
    Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

    Michael Holzheu