printk: Add function to return log buffer address and size
authorVasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Sat, 9 Aug 2014 05:45:30 +0000 (11:15 +0530)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Wed, 13 Aug 2014 05:13:44 +0000 (15:13 +1000)
commit14c4000a88afaaa2d0877cc86d42a74fde0f35e0
treeb4133597b6990120a60302cf6b677b463bbc1752
parent3609e09fd824c37df6f2bf13caa88f6f54a11922
printk: Add function to return log buffer address and size

Platforms like IBM Power Systems supports service processor
assisted dump. It provides interface to add memory region to
be captured when system is crashed.

During initialization/running we can add kernel memory region
to be collected.

Presently we don't have a way to get the log buffer base address
and size. This patch adds support to return log buffer address
and size.

Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/printk.h
kernel/printk/printk.c