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From: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>, kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: horms@verge.net.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmcore-dmesg: avoid allocating large memory chunk for log buf
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 10:57:58 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2550dd3e-4473-aef8-41cf-4bfe1bb930df@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1497910994-15129-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>



On Tuesday 20 June 2017 03:53 AM, Cong Wang wrote:
> In kdump kernel, we got:
>
>     Saving vmcore-dmesg.txt
>     Failed to malloc 67108864 bytes for the logbuf: Cannot allocate memory
>
> Apparently 64M is too luxury for a kdump kernel which only has 128M
> in total.
>
> We can avoid allocating such a large memory chunk, instead just allocate
> a smaller chunk inside the loop each time.

Nice improvement.

>
> Verify the result by comparing the vmcore-dmesg output with and without
> this patch.

Yes, it works.

Modification looks fine to me.

Reviewed-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>



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      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-28  5:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-19 22:23 [PATCH] vmcore-dmesg: avoid allocating large memory chunk for log buf Cong Wang
2017-06-27 16:43 ` Cong Wang
2017-06-28  5:19 ` Dave Young
2017-07-05 17:18   ` Cong Wang
2017-06-28  5:27 ` Pratyush Anand [this message]

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