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From: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, cpw@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] makedumpfile: Petr Tesarik's hugepage filtering
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 11:40:47 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <519ED32F.6090005@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <519ECF57.1080600@jp.fujitsu.com>

(2013/05/24 11:24), HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote:
> (2013/05/24 10:11), Atsushi Kumagai wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 May 2013 13:43:59 -0500
>> Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> wrote:

> Also, hugetlbfs pages are "user data". They should get filtered when user data dump level
> is specified. So how about:
>
>        Dump  |  zero   without  with     user    free   hugetlbfs
>        Level |  page   private  private  data    page   page
>       -------+-----------------------------------------------------
>           0  |
>           1  |   X
>           2  |           X
>           4  |           X        X
>           8  |                            X              X
>          16  |                                    X
>          32  |                                           X
>          63  |   X       X        X       X       X      X
>
> On dump level 8, hugetlbfs pages also get filtered.

Thinking further, it might be unlikely that we want user data but don't want hugetlbfs pages
on crash dump case. If so, I think Petr's implementation seems also OK. It seems no problem
to postpone introducing new dump level after someone who wants to filter hugetlbfs pages only,
actually occurs.

-- 
Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke


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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1UcggB-0005gy-4i@eag09.americas.sgi.com>
2013-05-24  1:11 ` [PATCH] makedumpfile: Petr Tesarik's hugepage filtering Atsushi Kumagai
2013-05-24  2:24   ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-05-24  2:40     ` HATAYAMA Daisuke [this message]
2013-05-27 10:56       ` Atsushi Kumagai

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