kexec: remove KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC

KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC is useless because we already save kernel messages inside
/proc/vmcore, and it is unsafe to allow modules to do other stuffs in a
crash dump scenario.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build]
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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WANG Cong 2012-01-12 17:20:11 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 9512938b88
commit a3dd332305
5 changed files with 2 additions and 9 deletions

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@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
enum kmsg_dump_reason {
KMSG_DUMP_OOPS,
KMSG_DUMP_PANIC,
KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC,
KMSG_DUMP_RESTART,
KMSG_DUMP_HALT,
KMSG_DUMP_POWEROFF,