Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] remove vm_struct list management

2012-12-07 Thread JoonSoo Kim
2012/12/7 Andrew Morton a...@linux-foundation.org: On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 01:09:27 +0900 Joonsoo Kim js1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure that 7/8: makes vmlist only for kexec is fine. Because it is related to userspace program. As far as I know, makedumpfile use kexec's output information and

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] remove vm_struct list management

2012-12-07 Thread JoonSoo Kim
Hello, Bob. 2012/12/7 Bob Liu lliu...@gmail.com: Hi Joonsoo, On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Joonsoo Kim js1...@gmail.com wrote: This patchset remove vm_struct list management after initializing vmalloc. Adding and removing an entry to vmlist is linear time complexity, so it is

Re: [RFC PATCH 1/8] mm, vmalloc: change iterating a vmlist to find_vm_area()

2012-12-07 Thread JoonSoo Kim
Hello, Pekka. 2012/12/7 Pekka Enberg penb...@kernel.org: On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Joonsoo Kim js1...@gmail.com wrote: The purpose of iterating a vmlist is finding vm area with specific virtual address. find_vm_area() is provided for this purpose and more efficient, because it uses a

RE: [PATCH v2 0/7] makedumpfile security key filtering with eppic

2012-12-07 Thread Luc Chouinard
-Original Message- From: Aravinda Prasad [mailto:aravi...@linux.vnet.ibm.com] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 1:05 AM To: Dave Anderson Cc: ana...@in.ibm.com; mah...@linux.vnet.ibm.com; kexec@lists.infradead.org; Luc Chouinard; tachib...@mxm.nes.nec.co.jp; Atsushi Kumagai; Vivek

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] remove vm_struct list management

2012-12-07 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 10:16:55PM +0900, JoonSoo Kim wrote: 2012/12/7 Andrew Morton a...@linux-foundation.org: On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 01:09:27 +0900 Joonsoo Kim js1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure that 7/8: makes vmlist only for kexec is fine. Because it is related to userspace program.

Re: [PATCH] Add the values related to buddy system for filtering free pages

2012-12-07 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 05:02:47PM +0900, Atsushi Kumagai wrote: This patch adds the values related to buddy system to vmcoreinfo data so that makedumpfile (dump filtering command) can filter out all free pages with the new logic. It's faster than the current logic because it can distinguish

Re: [PATCH] makedumpfile: request the kernel do page scans

2012-12-07 Thread Petr Tesarik
V Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:07:10 -0600 Cliff Wickman c...@sgi.com napsáno: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 03:39:44PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 04:52:40PM -0600, Cliff Wickman wrote: Gentlemen, I know this is rather late to the game, given all the recent work to

Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] makedumpfile security key filtering with eppic

2012-12-07 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 08:46:33AM -0500, Luc Chouinard wrote: [..] This is what I am planning. A new extension_eppic.c file will be created under makedumpfile source directory. This file is equivalent to applications/crash/eppic.c in upstream eppic repository. A new target will be