Add section describing the utility of coreimage ELF generation for kmemdump. Signed-off-by: Eugen Hristev <eugen.hristev@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/debug/kmemdump.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/debug/kmemdump.rst b/Documentation/debug/kmemdump.rst index dfee755a1be1..b67dc166905a 100644 --- a/Documentation/debug/kmemdump.rst +++ b/Documentation/debug/kmemdump.rst @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ kmemdump allows a backend to be connected, this backend interfaces a specific hardware that can debug or dump the memory registered into kmemdump. +kmemdump can also prepare specific regions of the kernel that can be +put together to form a minimal core image file. To achieve this, the first +region is an ELF header with program headers for each region, and specific +ELF NOTE section with vmcoreinfo. To enable this feature, use +`CONFIG_DRIVER_KMEMDUMP_COREIMAGE`. + kmemdump Internals ============= -- 2.43.0
