kexec: remove KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC

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>
This commit is contained in:
WANG Cong
2012-01-12 17:20:11 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 9512938b88
commit a3dd332305
5 changed files with 2 additions and 9 deletions

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@@ -638,7 +638,6 @@ static void oops_to_nvram(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
/* These are almost always orderly shutdowns. */
return;
case KMSG_DUMP_OOPS:
case KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC:
break;
case KMSG_DUMP_PANIC:
panicking = true;