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authorSourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>2019-12-11 21:39:09 +0530
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2020-02-19 22:45:36 +1100
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Documentation/ABI: Mark /sys/kernel/fadump_* sysfs files deprecated
Add a deprecation note in FADump sysfs ABI documentation files and move them from ABI/testing to ABI/obsolete directory. Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> [mpe: Use a proper table to fix errors from the documentation build] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191211160910.21656-6-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-kernel-fadump_enabled9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-kernel-fadump_registered10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-kernel-fadump_release_mem10
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-kernel-fadump_enabled b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-kernel-fadump_enabled
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e9c2de8b3688
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-kernel-fadump_enabled
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+This ABI is renamed and moved to a new location /sys/kernel/fadump/enabled.
+
+What: /sys/kernel/fadump_enabled
+Date: Feb 2012
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: read only
+ Primarily used to identify whether the FADump is enabled in
+ the kernel or not.
+User: Kdump service
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-kernel-fadump_registered b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-kernel-fadump_registered
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0360be39c98e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-kernel-fadump_registered
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+This ABI is renamed and moved to a new location /sys/kernel/fadump/registered.¬
+
+What: /sys/kernel/fadump_registered
+Date: Feb 2012
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: read/write
+ Helps to control the dump collect feature from userspace.
+ Setting 1 to this file enables the system to collect the
+ dump and 0 to disable it.
+User: Kdump service
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-kernel-fadump_release_mem b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-kernel-fadump_release_mem
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6ce0b129ab12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-kernel-fadump_release_mem
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+This ABI is renamed and moved to a new location /sys/kernel/fadump/release_mem.¬
+
+What: /sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem
+Date: Feb 2012
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: write only
+ This is a special sysfs file and only available when
+ the system is booted to capture the vmcore using FADump.
+ It is used to release the memory reserved by FADump to
+ save the crash dump.