HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com> writes: > Modern kernel marks the end of ELF note buffer with NT_VMCORE_PAD type > note in order to make the buffer satisfy mmap()'s page-size boundary > requirement. This patch makes finishing reading each buffer if the > note type now being read is NT_VMCORE_PAD type. There is absolutely no need for this ABI change. If you need a wasteful pad note taking up space (which I see no evicence for) you can still terminate this with an empty note. Eric
