From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx> Hi, This series makes a few improvements to /proc/kcore. Patches 1 and 2 are prep patches. Patch 3 is a fix/cleanup. Patch 4 is another prep patch. Patches 5 and 6 are optimizations to ->read(). Patch 7 adds vmcoreinfo to /proc/kcore. This series is based on v4.18-rc3. Please consider it for v4.19. Thanks! Omar Sandoval (7): proc/kcore: don't grab lock for kclist_add() proc/kcore: replace kclist_lock rwlock with rwsem proc/kcore: fix memory hotplug vs multiple opens race proc/kcore: hold lock during read proc/kcore: clean up ELF header generation proc/kcore: optimize multiple page reads proc/kcore: add vmcoreinfo note to /proc/kcore fs/proc/Kconfig | 1 + fs/proc/kcore.c | 524 +++++++++++++++++-------------------- include/linux/crash_core.h | 2 + kernel/crash_core.c | 4 +- 4 files changed, 241 insertions(+), 290 deletions(-) -- 2.18.0
