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authorGravatar Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> 2019-12-11 21:39:09 +0530
committerGravatar Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> 2020-02-19 22:45:36 +1100
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Documentation/ABI: Mark /sys/kernel/fadump_* sysfs files deprecated
Add a deprecation note in FADump sysfs ABI documentation files and move them from ABI/testing to ABI/obsolete directory. Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> [mpe: Use a proper table to fix errors from the documentation build] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191211160910.21656-6-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
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+This ABI is renamed and moved to a new location /sys/kernel/fadump/release_mem.¬
+
+What: /sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem
+Date: Feb 2012
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: write only
+ This is a special sysfs file and only available when
+ the system is booted to capture the vmcore using FADump.
+ It is used to release the memory reserved by FADump to
+ save the crash dump.