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Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 22:43:27 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] kdump, vmcore: support mmap() on /proc/vmcore
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On 05/16/2013 09:29 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Whatever theoretical issues you have with /dev/oldmem and /proc/vmcore
> can and should be talked about and addressed independently of these
> changes.

And they are... last I know Dave Hansen was looking at it.

	-hpa


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