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    crash: remove dependency of FA_DUMP on CRASH_DUMP · 2c44b67e
    Baoquan He authored
    In kdump kernel, /proc/vmcore is an elf file mapping the crashed kernel's
    old memory content. Its elf header is constructed in 1st kernel and passed
    to kdump kernel via elfcorehdr_addr. Config CRASH_DUMP enables the code
    of 1st kernel's old memory accessing in different architectures.
    
    Currently, config FA_DUMP has dependency on CRASH_DUMP because fadump
    needs access global variable 'elfcorehdr_addr' to judge if it's in
    kdump kernel within function is_kdump_kernel(). In the current
    kernel/crash_dump.c, variable 'elfcorehdr_addr' is defined, and function
    setup_elfcorehdr() used to parse kernel parameter to fetch the passed
    value of elfcorehdr_addr. Only for accessing elfcorehdr_addr, FA_DUMP
    really doesn't have to depends on CRASH_DUMP.
    
    To remove the dependency of FA_DUMP on CRASH_DUMP to avoid confusion,
    rename kernel/crash_dump.c to kernel/elfcorehdr.c, and build it when
    CONFIG_VMCORE_INFO is ebabled. With this, FA_DUMP doesn't need to depend
    on CRASH_DU...
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