On 11/24/14 at 03:28pm, "Zhou, Wenjian/???" wrote: > On 11/24/2014 03:18 PM, Baoquan He wrote: > >On 11/06/14 at 04:49pm, Zhou Wenjian wrote: > >>+ while (*cur_splitblock_num< splitblock->num&& pfn_needed> 0) { > >>+ pfn_needed -= read_from_splitblock_table(splitblock_value_offset); > >>+ splitblock_value_offset += splitblock->entry_size; > >>+ ++*cur_splitblock_num; > >>+ } > > > >Hi Wenjian, > > > >If splitblock->page_per_splitblock is 1G, and the system ram is 4G. Now > >I set 8 dumpfiles to store the splitted vmcore, say dump0...7. Then > >dump0/1/2/3 will store 1G of data, dump4/5/6/7 will be empty. So is it > >OK? > > > >Can we do anything to avoid this case or give some note to let people not > >be panikked by empty dump files? > > > >Thanks > >Baoquan > > > > > > Hello Baoquan, > > Actually, we have thought about it and talked at > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2014-November/012880.html . OK, thanks for telling. > > -- > Thanks > Zhou Wenjian > > _______________________________________________ > kexec mailing list > kexec at lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec