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1What:		/sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo
2Date:		October 2007
3KernelVersion:	2.6.24
4Contact:	Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
5		Kexec Mailing List <kexec@lists.infradead.org>
6		Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
7Description:
8		Shows physical address and size of vmcoreinfo ELF note.
9		First value contains physical address of note in hex and
10		second value contains the size of note in hex. This ELF
11		note info is parsed by second kernel and exported to user
12		space as part of ELF note in /proc/vmcore file. This note
13		contains various information like struct size, symbol
14		values, page size etc.
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