Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754041Ab3CEHFd (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Mar 2013 02:05:33 -0500 Received: from fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.36]:50399 "EHLO fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753594Ab3CEHF3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Mar 2013 02:05:29 -0500 From: HATAYAMA Daisuke Subject: [PATCH v2 06/20] vmcore, procfs: introduce a flag to distinguish objects copied in 2nd kernel To: vgoyal@redhat.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, cpw@sgi.com, kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp, lisa.mitchell@hp.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:36:22 +0900 Message-ID: <20130302083622.31252.38843.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> In-Reply-To: <20130302083447.31252.93914.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> References: <20130302083447.31252.93914.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> User-Agent: StGIT/0.14.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1193 Lines: 41 The part of dump target memory is copied into the 2nd kernel if it doesn't satisfy mmap()'s page-size boundary requirement. To distinguish such copied object from usual old memory, a flag MEM_TYPE_CURRENT_KERNEL is introduced. If this flag is set, the object is considered being copied into buffer on the 2nd kernel. Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke --- include/linux/proc_fs.h | 8 +++++++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/proc_fs.h b/include/linux/proc_fs.h index 8307f2f..11dd592 100644 --- a/include/linux/proc_fs.h +++ b/include/linux/proc_fs.h @@ -97,11 +97,17 @@ struct kcore_list { int type; }; +#define MEM_TYPE_CURRENT_KERNEL 0x1 + struct vmcore { struct list_head list; - unsigned long long paddr; + union { + unsigned long long paddr; + char *buf; + }; unsigned long long size; loff_t offset; + unsigned int flag; }; #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/