(2013/06/12 18:13), Michael Holzheu wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:42:15 +0900
> HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2013/6/11 Michael Holzheu <holzheu at linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
>>> On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:40:24 +0900
>>> HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2013/6/8 Michael Holzheu <holzheu at linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
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>
> Thanks for that hint! So together with your other comment regarding
> error checking for __read_vmcore() the function would look like the
> following:
>
> static int mmap_vmcore_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct'vm_fault *vmf)
> {
> struct address_space *mapping = vma->vm_private_data;
> pgoff_t index = vmf->pgoff;
> struct page *page;
> loff_t src;
> char *buf;
>
> page = find_or_create_page(mapping, index, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!page)
> return VM_FAULT_OOM;
> if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
> src = index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
> buf = (void *) (page_to_pfn(page) << PAGE_SHIFT);
> if (__read_vmcore(buf, PAGE_SIZE, &src, 0) < 0) {
> unlock_page(page);
> return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
> }
> SetPageUptodate(page);
> }
> unlock_page(page);
> vmf->page = page;
> return 0;
> }
>
> Perhaps one open issue remains:
>
> Can we remove the page from the page cache if __read_vmcore() fails?
Sorry, I overlooked the case that __read_vmcore() returns ENOMEM since it uses ioremap() internally in which page table allocation happens. Fault handler should return VM_FAULT_OOM in that case.
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Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke
