>On 06/29/2015 04:33 PM, Atsushi Kumagai wrote: >> Hello Zhou, >> >>> Currently, there is no obvious description in IMPLEMENTATION for >>> distinguishing the lost pages resulted by ENOSPACE errors or others. >>> So, it is added. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Zhou Wenjian<[email protected]> >>> --- >>> IMPLEMENTATION | 2 ++ >>> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/IMPLEMENTATION b/IMPLEMENTATION >>> index 72df5d5..70a3f7c 100644 >>> --- a/IMPLEMENTATION >>> +++ b/IMPLEMENTATION >>> @@ -240,6 +240,8 @@ >>> The page header and page data are written in pairs. When writing page >>> data >>> (pfn N+1), if ENOSPACE error happens, the page headers after N won't be >>> written either. >>> + When reading page from incomplete core, only the page lost by ENOSPACE >>> errors >>> + has 0 in its corresponding page descriptor's member offset. >> >> I'm not sure this is correct. >> Could you point me where is the code which sets 0 to the page_desc->offset >> of the lost page ? >> > >There is no code to set it. Since the data lost is filled with zero when it is >read, >the page_desc->offset will also be zero. >And zero page has its own offset not equal 0. So we can distinguish them with >their >member offset.
Ah, you mean the behavior of crash ? I think it would be better to describe that in more detail in order, otherwise this additional description sounds sudden to me. Thanks Atsushi Kumagai _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
