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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@@ -315,8 +315,7 @@ static void mtdoops_do_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
char *dst;
if (reason != KMSG_DUMP_OOPS &&
reason != KMSG_DUMP_PANIC &&
reason != KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC)
reason != KMSG_DUMP_PANIC)
return;
/* Only dump oopses if dump_oops is set */