Re: [PATCH v3 12/21] vmcore: allocate per-cpu crash_notes objects on page-size boundary

Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-19T21:06:47Z

HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> writes:

> To satisfy mmap()'s page-size boundary requirement, allocate per-cpu
> crash_notes objects on page-size boundary.
>
> /proc/vmcore on the 2nd kernel checks if each note objects is
> allocated on page-size boundary. If there's some object not satisfying
> the page-size boundary requirement, /proc/vmcore doesn't provide
> mmap() interface.

Does this actually help? My memory is that /proc/vmcore did some magic
behind the scenes to combine these multiple note sections into a single
note section.

Certainly someone has to combine them together to make a valid elf
executable.

At the same time I don't see any harm in rounding up to a page size
here, but I don't see the point either.

Eric

> Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>
> kernel/kexec.c | 3 ++-
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
> index bddd3d7..d1f365e 100644
> --- a/kernel/kexec.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec.c
> @@ -1234,7 +1234,8 @@ void crash_save_cpu(struct pt_regs *regs, int cpu)
> static int __init crash_notes_memory_init(void)
> {
> /* Allocate memory for saving cpu registers. */
> - crash_notes = alloc_percpu(note_buf_t);
> + crash_notes = __alloc_percpu(roundup(sizeof(note_buf_t), PAGE_SIZE),
> + PAGE_SIZE);
> if (!crash_notes) {
> printk("Kexec: Memory allocation for saving cpu register"
> " states failed\n");