On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 01:55:55PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: [..] > If core counts on the high end do more than double every 2 years we > might have a problem. Otherwise making everything mmapable seems easy > and sound. We already have mechanism to translate file offset into actual physical address where data is. So if we can't allocate one contiguous chunk of memory for notes, we should be able to break it down into multiple page aligned areas and map offset into respective discontiguous areas using vmcore_list. Thanks Vivek