Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755948Ab3EVOCg (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 May 2013 10:02:36 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:61068 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754805Ab3EVOCe (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 May 2013 10:02:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 10:01:42 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal To: HATAYAMA Daisuke Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, cpw@sgi.com, kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp, lisa.mitchell@hp.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com, jingbai.ma@hp.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, riel@redhat.com, walken@google.com, hughd@google.com, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/8] vmcore: allocate buffer for ELF headers on page-size alignment Message-ID: <20130522140142.GD5332@redhat.com> References: <20130522025410.12215.16793.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> <20130522025543.12215.27624.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130522025543.12215.27624.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1140 Lines: 29 On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:55:43AM +0900, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote: [..] > /* Sets offset fields of vmcore elements. */ > -static void __init set_vmcore_list_offsets_elf64(char *elfptr, > +static void __init set_vmcore_list_offsets_elf64(char *elfptr, size_t elfsz, > struct list_head *vc_list) > { > loff_t vmcore_off; > @@ -469,8 +472,7 @@ static void __init set_vmcore_list_offsets_elf64(char *elfptr, > ehdr_ptr = (Elf64_Ehdr *)elfptr; > > /* Skip Elf header and program headers. */ > - vmcore_off = sizeof(Elf64_Ehdr) + > - (ehdr_ptr->e_phnum) * sizeof(Elf64_Phdr); > + vmcore_off = elfsz; As you are passing in size of elf headers, I think some of the code has become redundant in this function. (ehdr_ptr = (Elf64_Ehdr *)elfptr;). We can remove it and now we should be able to merge set_vmcore_list_offsets_elf32() and set_vmcore_list_offsets_elf64() functions. Vivek -- 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/