This document lists some variables that export to vmcoreinfo, and briefly
describles what these variables indicate. It should be instructive for
many people who do not know the vmcoreinfo, and it also normalizes the
exported variable as a standard ABI between kernel and use-space.
Suggested-by:
For AMD machine with SME feature, makedumpfile tools need to know
whether the crash kernel was encrypted or not. If SME is enabled
in the first kernel, the crash kernel's page table(pgd/pud/pmd/pte)
contains the memory encryption mask, so need to remove the sme mask
to obtain the true physical
This patchset did two things:
a. add a new document for vmcoreinfo
This document lists some variables that export to vmcoreinfo, and briefly
describles what these variables indicate. It should be instructive for
many people who do not know the vmcoreinfo, and it also normalizes the
exported
