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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jingbai Ma <jingbai.ma@hp.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Mitchell, Lisa (MCLinux in Fort Collins)" <lisa.mitchell@hp.com>,
	mingo@redhat.com, kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, yinghai@kernel.org,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] crash dump bitmap: scan memory pages in kernel to speedup kernel dump process
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:33:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5139BE7F.5020905@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5139B827.3050500@hp.com>

On 03/08/2013 02:06 AM, Jingbai Ma wrote:
> 
> Kernel do have some abilities that user space haven't. It's possible to
> map whole memory space of the first kernel into user space on the second
> kernel. But the user space code has to re-implement some parts of the
> kernel memory management system again. And worse, it's architecture
> dependent, more architectures supported, more codes have to be
> implemented. All implementation in user space must be sync to kernel
> implementation. It's may called "flexibility", but it's painful to
> maintain the codes.
> 

What?  You are basically talking about /dev/mem... there is nothing
particularly magic about it at all.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-08 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-07 14:58 [RFC PATCH 0/5] crash dump bitmap: scan memory pages in kernel to speedup kernel dump process Jingbai Ma
2013-03-07 14:58 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] crash dump bitmap: add a kernel config and help document Jingbai Ma
2013-03-07 14:58 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] crash dump bitmap: init crash dump bitmap in kernel booting process Jingbai Ma
2013-03-07 14:58 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] crash dump bitmap: scan memory pages in kernel crash process Jingbai Ma
2013-03-07 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] crash dump bitmap: add a proc interface for crash dump bitmap Jingbai Ma
2013-03-07 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] crash dump bitmap: workaround for kernel 3.9-rc1 kdump issue Jingbai Ma
2013-03-07 15:21 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] crash dump bitmap: scan memory pages in kernel to speedup kernel dump process Vivek Goyal
2013-03-07 21:38   ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-07 21:54   ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-08 15:52     ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-08 16:19       ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-11  8:18       ` Jingbai Ma
2013-03-11  9:42         ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-12 10:05           ` Jingbai Ma
2013-03-12 19:48             ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-08  1:31   ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-03-08 10:06   ` Jingbai Ma
2013-03-08 10:33     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-03-08 13:31       ` Ma, Jingbai (Kingboard)
2013-03-08 16:13         ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-11  8:31           ` Jingbai Ma
2013-03-08 16:19     ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11  8:53       ` Jingbai Ma
2013-03-09  4:31     ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-03-11  9:02       ` Jingbai Ma
2013-03-08 10:16   ` Jingbai Ma
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2013-03-07 14:00 Jingbai Ma

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