Re: [PATCH v2 15/20] kexec: fill note buffers by NT_VMCORE_PAD notes in page-size boundary

HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-03-08T01:55:35Z

From: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 15/20] kexec: fill note buffers by NT_VMCORE_PAD notes in page-size boundary
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 18:11:30 +0800

> 于 2013年03月02日 16:37, HATAYAMA Daisuke 写道:
>> Fill both crash_notes and vmcoreinfo_note buffers by NT_VMCORE_PAD
>> note type to make them satisfy mmap()'s page-size boundary
>> requirement.
>>
>> So far, end of note segments has been marked by zero-filled elf
>> header. Instead, this patch writes NT_VMCORE_PAD note in the end of
>> note segments until the offset on page-size boundary.
>
>
> In the codes below, it seems that you assign name "VMCOREINFO" for
> note type NT_VMCORE_PAD, right? This is kind of wired, i think. This
> name has been used for NT_VMCORE_DEBUGINFO note already. Why not something
> like "VMCOREPAD" or "PAD"?
>

It looks you are confusing or don't know name and type. The name is
namespace and in the namespace, there are multiple note types, each of
which has the corresponding data. In other words, data corresponding
to types differ if they belong to differnet name space even if
integers of the types are coincide with.

The "VMCOREINFO" name represents information exported from
/proc/vmcore that is used in kdump framework. In this sense,
NT_VMCORE_PAD that is specific for /proc/vmcore and kdump framework,
should belong to the "VMCOREINFO" name.

Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke