For kdump kernel, check /proc/vmcore
kexec kernel, no way.

On 03/11/17 at 10:40am, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> How do you tell you’re in the new kernel?
> 
> There doesn’t seem to be anything in /sys/kernel/ that indicates this.
> 
> I could parse /proc/cmdline for the absence of “crashkernel=“ for instance, 
> but there are obvious pitfalls to that.
> 
> You’d think there would be a way for the kexec’d kernel to maintain some sort 
> of marker making it obvious that this is the kexec’d kernel (especially if 
> your system kernel and your crash kernel are the same, and only the cmdline 
> arguments change).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Philip
> 
> 
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