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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
	Kexec Mailing List <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>, WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: /proc/vmcore mmap() failure issue
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:44:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <528400DD.3040003@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131113224104.GF7613@redhat.com>

On 11/13/2013 02:41 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I noticed we seem to be trimming away partial pages in memblock.
> 
> memblock_x86_fill() {
> 	/* throw away partial pages */
>         memblock_trim_memory(PAGE_SIZE);
> }
> 
> But not in e820 hence they show up in /proc/iomem.
> 

Why does /proc/iomem matter?

> How about something along the lines as below patch. This fixes my
> /proc/vmcore mmap() issue.

I'm not sure if what you're seeing is something that is better handled
in userspace.

	-hpa



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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Kexec Mailing List <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
	Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>, WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>,
	Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: /proc/vmcore mmap() failure issue
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:44:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <528400DD.3040003@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131113224104.GF7613@redhat.com>

On 11/13/2013 02:41 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I noticed we seem to be trimming away partial pages in memblock.
> 
> memblock_x86_fill() {
> 	/* throw away partial pages */
>         memblock_trim_memory(PAGE_SIZE);
> }
> 
> But not in e820 hence they show up in /proc/iomem.
> 

Why does /proc/iomem matter?

> How about something along the lines as below patch. This fixes my
> /proc/vmcore mmap() issue.

I'm not sure if what you're seeing is something that is better handled
in userspace.

	-hpa



  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-13 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-13 20:41 /proc/vmcore mmap() failure issue Vivek Goyal
2013-11-13 20:41 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-13 21:04 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-13 21:04   ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-13 21:14   ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-13 21:14     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-13 22:41     ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-13 22:41       ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-13 22:44       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-11-13 22:44         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-13 23:00         ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-13 23:00           ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-13 23:08           ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-13 23:08             ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-14 10:31 ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-14 10:31   ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-14 15:13   ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-14 15:13     ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-15  9:41     ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-15  9:41       ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-15 14:26       ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-15 14:26         ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-18  0:51         ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-18  0:51           ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-18 13:55           ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-18 13:55             ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-20  5:29             ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-20  5:29               ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-20 14:59               ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-20 14:59                 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-21  5:00                 ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-21  5:00                   ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-21  8:31                   ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-21  8:31                     ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-21 16:52                     ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-21 16:52                       ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-25  8:10                       ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-25  8:10                         ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-25  9:01                         ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-25  9:01                           ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-25 14:41                           ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-25 14:41                             ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-26  1:51                             ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-26  1:51                               ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-26  5:16                             ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-26  5:16                               ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-19  9:55           ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-19  9:55             ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-20  5:27             ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-20  5:27               ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-20  6:43               ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-20  6:43                 ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-26  1:52                 ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-26  1:52                   ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-21  7:14               ` chaowang
2013-11-21  7:14                 ` chaowang
2013-11-25  8:09                 ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-25  8:09                   ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-26  3:29                   ` chaowang
2013-11-26  3:29                     ` chaowang

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