Previously crash use lseek/read for kcore and vmcore reading, this involves 2 syscalls. And we can replace them with pread, only 1 syscall is needed for kcore/vmcore reading, and we can have a better performance. Please note there are plenty of places in crash using lseek/read, this patch doesn't modify all of them, just the most commonly used kcore and diskdump vmcore reading. Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <ltao@xxxxxxxxxx> --- diskdump.c | 11 ++--------- netdump.c | 5 +---- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/diskdump.c b/diskdump.c index cf5f5d9..acf79f2 100644 --- a/diskdump.c +++ b/diskdump.c @@ -515,15 +515,11 @@ arm_kdump_header_adjust(int header_version) static int read_pd(int fd, off_t offset, page_desc_t *pd) { - const off_t failed = (off_t)-1; - if (FLAT_FORMAT()) { if (!read_flattened_format(fd, offset, pd, sizeof(*pd))) return READ_ERROR; } else { - if (lseek(fd, offset, SEEK_SET) == failed) - return SEEK_ERROR; - if (read(fd, pd, sizeof(*pd)) != sizeof(*pd)) + if (pread(fd, pd, sizeof(*pd), offset) != sizeof(*pd)) return READ_ERROR; } @@ -1125,7 +1121,6 @@ cache_page(physaddr_t paddr) off_t seek_offset; page_desc_t pd; const int block_size = dd->block_size; - const off_t failed = (off_t)-1; ulong retlen; #ifdef ZSTD static ZSTD_DCtx *dctx = NULL; @@ -1190,9 +1185,7 @@ cache_page(physaddr_t paddr) return PAGE_INCOMPLETE; } } else { - if (lseek(dd->dfd, pd.offset, SEEK_SET) == failed) - return SEEK_ERROR; - if (read(dd->dfd, dd->compressed_page, pd.size) != pd.size) + if (pread(dd->dfd, dd->compressed_page, pd.size, pd.offset) != pd.size) return READ_ERROR; } diff --git a/netdump.c b/netdump.c index 01af145..e76807a 100644 --- a/netdump.c +++ b/netdump.c @@ -4436,10 +4436,7 @@ read_proc_kcore(int fd, void *bufptr, int cnt, ulong addr, physaddr_t paddr) if (offset == UNINITIALIZED) return SEEK_ERROR; - if (lseek(fd, offset, SEEK_SET) != offset) - perror("lseek"); - - if (read(fd, bufptr, readcnt) != readcnt) + if (pread(fd, bufptr, readcnt, offset) != readcnt) return READ_ERROR; return cnt; -- 2.33.1 -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility Contribution Guidelines: https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/wiki