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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-13 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-13 20:41 /proc/vmcore mmap() failure issue Vivek Goyal
2013-11-13 21:04 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-13 21:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-13 22:41 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-13 22:44 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-11-13 23:00 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-13 23:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-14 10:31 ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-14 15:13 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-15 9:41 ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-15 14:26 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-18 0:51 ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-18 13:55 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-20 5:29 ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-20 14:59 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-21 5:00 ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-21 8:31 ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-21 16:52 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-25 8:10 ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-25 9:01 ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-25 14:41 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-26 1:51 ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-26 5:16 ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-19 9:55 ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-20 5:27 ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-20 6:43 ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-11-26 1:52 ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-21 7:14 ` chaowang
2013-11-25 8:09 ` Atsushi Kumagai
2013-11-26 3:29 ` chaowang
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