Hari Bathini 86328b338c vmcore: remove dependency with is_kdump_kernel() for exporting vmcore ...

Currently, is_kdump_kernel() returns true when elfcorehdr_addr is set.
While elfcorehdr_addr is set for kexec based kernel dump mechanism,
alternate dump capturing methods like fadump [1] also set it to export
the vmcore. Since, is_kdump_kernel() is used to restrict resources in
crash dump capture kernel and such restrictions may not be desirable
for fadump, allow is_kdump_kernel() to be defined differently for such
scenarios. With this, is_kdump_kernel() could be false while vmcore is
usable. So, remove unnecessary dependency with is_kdump_kernel(), for
exporting vmcore.

[1] https://docs.kernel.org/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.html

Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230912082950.856977-1-hbathini@linux.ibm.com

2023-09-18 12:23:27 +10:00

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