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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt | 8 |
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diff --git a/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt b/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt index 2868a77142..821261067f 100644 --- a/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt +++ b/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt @@ -39,3 +39,11 @@ qemu dumps. The note format/class must be of the target bitness and the size must be less than 1Mb. + +If the ELF note name is "VMCOREINFO", it is expected to be the Linux +vmcoreinfo note (see Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-vmcoreinfo +in Linux source). In this case, qemu dump code will read the content +as a key=value text file, looking for "NUMBER(phys_base)" key +value. The value is expected to be more accurate than architecture +guess of the value. This is useful for KASLR-enabled guest with +ancient tools not handling the VMCOREINFO note. |