On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 01:28:16PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > 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
Rescinded. My bad, I didn't think to check that. Thanks! Nei -- /**************************************************** * Neil Horman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Software Engineer, Red Hat ****************************************************/ _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
