On 09/02/14 at 06:20am, Atsushi Kumagai wrote: > Hello Baoquan, > > >[patch 6/8] introduce-a-function-exclude_zero_pages_cyclic > >v3->v4: > > Newly introduce a function exclude_zero_pages_cyclic(), and call it in > > get_num_dumpable_cyclic(). > > > > Besides, a strange thing happened when the new interface was tested on > > my local AMD machine. It always terminated and printed message: > > "Program terminated with signal SIGKILL" > > With gdb, it should be going in readmem() of exclude_zero_pages_cyclic, I > > still don't know why it happened. > > This issue is still under investigation, but it may be a kernel issue > since you just read a page of System RAM via /proc/kcore. At least your > patches look good to me, I'll merge them into v1.5.7. Good job! Hi Atsushi, Thanks for help on this patchset. For this issue happened on AMD machine, I will try to look into it deeper later. Saw the mail you mentioned that someone has reported the simillar bug, will check it. Thanks Baoquan > > > Thanks > Atsushi Kumagai > > >