On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 04:56:44PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Neil Horman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-03 15:30]: > > Hey all- > > Patch to reduce the alignment constraints on ia64 elf core headers. > > >From what I can see there is no need to align the elf core header > > >structure to > > the EFI_PAGE_SIZE (given that the EFI will never read this data, only the > > kernel > > will when booting a kdump kernel). And since this is going into our > > reserved > > memory, it saves us 3K (4K vs 1K alignment). Tested successfully by myself > > on > > several ia64 boxes. > > This is wrong. Please read this thead: > > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/fastboot/2007-February/012882.html
Hi Neil, Hi Bernhard, I can confirm that with Neil's patch I end up with a zero byte long /proc/vmcore -- Horms _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
