HATAYAMA Daisuke <[email protected]> writes: > Modern kernel marks the end of ELF note buffer with NT_VMCORE_PAD type > note in order to make the buffer satisfy mmap()'s page-size boundary > requirement. This patch makes finishing reading each buffer if the > note type now being read is NT_VMCORE_PAD type.
There is absolutely no need for this ABI change. If you need a wasteful pad note taking up space (which I see no evicence for) you can still terminate this with an empty note. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
