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Subject: vmcore, procfs: introduce a flag to distinguish objects copied in 2nd kernel
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vmcore-procfs-introduce-a-flag-to-distinguish-objects-copied-in-2nd-kernel.patch
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From: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: vmcore, procfs: introduce a flag to distinguish objects copied in 2nd kernel
The part of dump target memory is copied into the 2nd kernel if it doesn't
satisfy mmap()'s page-size boundary requirement. To distinguish such
copied object from usual old memory, a flag MEM_TYPE_CURRENT_KERNEL is
introduced. If this flag is set, the object is considered to have been
copied into a buffer on the 2nd kernel.
Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/proc_fs.h | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN include/linux/proc_fs.h~vmcore-procfs-introduce-a-flag-to-distinguish-objects-copied-in-2nd-kernel include/linux/proc_fs.h
--- a/include/linux/proc_fs.h~vmcore-procfs-introduce-a-flag-to-distinguish-objects-copied-in-2nd-kernel
+++ a/include/linux/proc_fs.h
@@ -97,11 +97,17 @@ struct kcore_list {
int type;
};
+#define MEM_TYPE_CURRENT_KERNEL 0x1
+
struct vmcore {
struct list_head list;
- unsigned long long paddr;
+ union {
+ unsigned long long paddr;
+ char *buf;
+ };
unsigned long long size;
loff_t offset;
+ unsigned int flag;
};
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from d.hatayama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
vmcore-reference-e_phoff-member-explicitly-to-get-position-of-program-header-table.patch
vmcore-clean-up-by-removing-unnecessary-variable.patch
vmcore-rearrange-program-headers-without-assuming-consequtive-pt_note-entries.patch
vmcore-sysfs-export-elf-note-segment-size-instead-of-vmcoreinfo-data-size.patch
vmcore-allocate-buffer-for-elf-headers-on-page-size-alignment.patch
vmcore-round-up-buffer-size-of-elf-headers-by-page_size.patch
vmcore-procfs-introduce-a-flag-to-distinguish-objects-copied-in-2nd-kernel.patch
vmcore-copy-non-page-size-aligned-head-and-tail-pages-in-2nd-kernel.patch
vmcore-modify-vmcore-clean-up-function-to-free-buffer-on-2nd-kernel.patch
vmcore-clean-up-read_vmcore.patch
vmcore-read-buffers-for-vmcore-objects-copied-from-old-memory.patch
vmcore-allocate-per-cpu-crash_notes-objects-on-page-size-boundary.patch
kexec-allocate-vmcoreinfo-note-buffer-on-page-size-boundary.patch
kexec-elf-introduce-nt_vmcore_debuginfo-note-type.patch
elf-introduce-nt_vmcore_pad-type.patch
kexec-fill-note-buffers-by-nt_vmcore_pad-notes-in-page-size-boundary.patch
vmcore-check-nt_vmcore_pad-as-a-mark-indicating-the-end-of-elf-note-buffer.patch
vmcore-check-if-vmcore-objects-satify-mmaps-page-size-boundary-requirement.patch
vmcore-round-up-offset-of-vmcore-object-in-page-size-boundary.patch
vmcore-count-holes-generated-by-round-up-operation-for-vmcore-size.patch
vmcore-introduce-mmap_vmcore.patch
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