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crash_dump: Make is_kdump_kernel() accessible from modules
authorAmir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:06:52 +0000 (16:06 +0300)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 25 Aug 2014 22:42:19 +0000 (15:42 -0700)
commit702da377182212332a61b763c9326c4992be99ce
tree9ee265c2a402a693c01cdac53b7845a200117f65
parente1c320ad63c507c82cf09401c9e6c89721c31e70
crash_dump: Make is_kdump_kernel() accessible from modules

In order to make is_kdump_kernel() accessible from modules, need to
make elfcorehdr_addr exported.
This was rejected in the past [1] because reset_devices was prefered in
that context (reseting the device in kdump kernel), but now there are
some network drivers that need to reduce memory usage when loaded from
a kdump kernel.  And in that context, is_kdump_kernel() suits better.

[1] - https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/27/341

CC: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
kernel/crash_dump.c