Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751762AbZIHS5O (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:57:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751711AbZIHS5N (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:57:13 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56621 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751689AbZIHS5M (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:57:12 -0400 Message-ID: <4AA6A8FC.9080301@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:57:00 -0400 From: Rik van Riel Organization: Red Hat, Inc User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080915) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hugh Dickins CC: Andrew Morton , David Howells , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , KOSAKI Motohiro , Linus Torvalds , Nick Piggin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] mm: add get_dump_page References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 799 Lines: 20 Hugh Dickins wrote: > In preparation for the next patch, add a simple get_dump_page(addr) > interface for the CONFIG_ELF_CORE dumpers to use, instead of calling > get_user_pages() directly. They're not interested in errors: they > just want to use holes as much as possible, to save space and make > sure that the data is aligned where the headers said it would be. > > Oh, and don't use that horrid DUMP_SEEK(off) macro! > > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed. -- 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/