Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933759Ab3CSWRu (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:17:50 -0400 Received: from out03.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.233]:39064 "EHLO out03.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755311Ab3CSWRt (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:17:49 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: HATAYAMA Daisuke Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com, cpw@sgi.com, kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp, lisa.mitchell@hp.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com References: <20130316040003.15064.62308.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> <20130316040217.15064.61582.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:17:42 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20130316040217.15064.61582.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> (HATAYAMA Daisuke's message of "Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:02:17 +0900") Message-ID: <87sj3rkpa1.fsf@xmission.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX1/p4R6lWtIIGSGv+5NF0lv5S0fvIvl0Teo= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 98.207.154.105 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-Report: * -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.1 XMSubLong Long Subject * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG * -3.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa06 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] * 1.0 XM_Sft_Co_L33T XM_Sft_Co_L33T * 0.0 T_TooManySym_01 4+ unique symbols in subject * 0.0 T_TooManySym_02 5+ unique symbols in subject X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa06 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;HATAYAMA Daisuke X-Spam-Relay-Country: Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 16/21] kexec: fill note buffers by NT_VMCORE_PAD notes in page-size boundary X-Spam-Flag: No X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:26:46 -0700) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in02.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 679 Lines: 18 HATAYAMA Daisuke writes: > Fill both crash_notes and vmcoreinfo_note buffers by NT_VMCORE_PAD > note type to make them satisfy mmap()'s page-size boundary > requirement. The requirement does not exist. Making this change wasteful wrong, and potentially a ABI change between the first and second kernels. Further I believe if you check that final_note comes out of the ELF spec for note segments. Eric -- 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/