-----Original Message----- > > > I don't know may be some parts of bitmap weren't flushed either. I'll > > > investigate that further why "valid_pages * descriptor size" is not > > > equal to offset from data_offset to zero page on an incomplete dump. > > > > ugh, sorry, bitmap also can be incomplete in cyclic mode. In that case, > > page_is_dumpable() cannot be used to estimate the size in the first place, > > maybe all we can do is to get total_valid_pages.. > > > > Hi Kazu, > > Thanks for clarifying this. I think two-pass approach might still work with > this. > > I have an incomplete dump where data_offset = 8130000, zero_page_offset = 93d5c90 > and total_valid_pages = 476223. > > pd_count = (zero_page_offset - data_offset) / 24 (pd size) = 814726. > > So, we know that 338503 pages are missed in the bitmap and the dump is > 338503 pages smaller than it could be (at most, if every missed page > takes full page). That sounds good. > > Either way, it seems you're fine with the first four patches: > https://listman.redhat.com/archives/crash-utility/2021-June/msg00078.html > > Do we want to merge them? (v3 of the series only updates the last patch) Ok, for the v2 series except for the 5/5 patch, Acked-by: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio-ab@xxxxxxx> Thanks, Kazu -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility