On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 06:49:44AM -0500, Neil Horman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 01:28:16PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 04:56:44PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: > > > * Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> [2008-03-03 15:30]: > > > > Hey all- > > > > Patch to reduce the alignment constraints on ia64 elf core headers. > > > > >From what I can see there is no need to align the elf core header structure to > > > > the EFI_PAGE_SIZE (given that the EFI will never read this data, only the kernel > > > > will when booting a kdump kernel). And since this is going into our reserved > > > > memory, it saves us 3K (4K vs 1K alignment). Tested successfully by myself on > > > > several ia64 boxes. > > > > > > This is wrong. Please read this thead: > > > > > > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/fastboot/2007-February/012882.html > > > > Hi Neil, Hi Bernhard, > > > > I can confirm that with Neil's patch I end up with a zero > > byte long /proc/vmcore > > > > -- > > Horms > > Rescinded. My bad, I didn't think to check that. Thanks to Bernhard for spotting this, I likely would have merged it otherwise. -- Horms
