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From: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
To: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>, Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com>
Cc: Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
	kernelfans@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] [fs] proc/vmcore: check the dummy place holder for offline cpu to avoid warning
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 21:08:29 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6691e874-e47a-0028-a2f8-59e431613d6f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161219024018.GB29921@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com>



On Monday 19 December 2016 08:10 AM, Dave Young wrote:
> Hi, Pingfan
>
> On 12/19/16 at 10:08am, Pingfan Liu wrote:
>> > kexec-tools always allocates program headers for present cpus. But
>> > when crashing, offline cpus have dummy headers. We do not copy these
>> > dummy notes into ELF file, also have no need of warning on them.
> I still think it is not worth such a fix, if you feel a lot of warnings
> in case large cpu numbers, I think you can change the pr_warn to
> pr_warn_once, we do not care the null cpu notes if it has nothing bad
> to the vmcore.
>

I agree. Warning is more like information here. May be, we can count the 
number of times real_sz was 0, and then can print an info at the end in 
stead of warning, like..."N number of CPUs would have been offline, 
PT_NOTE entries was absent for them."

~Pratyush

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-20 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-19  2:08 [PATCHv2 1/2] kexec: add a dummy note for each offline cpu Pingfan Liu
2016-12-19  2:08 ` [PATCHv2 2/2] [fs] proc/vmcore: check the dummy place holder for offline cpu to avoid warning Pingfan Liu
2016-12-19  2:40   ` Dave Young
2016-12-20 15:38     ` Pratyush Anand [this message]
2016-12-21  3:26       ` Xunlei Pang
2016-12-21  3:57         ` Pratyush Anand
2016-12-21  4:52           ` Xunlei Pang
2016-12-21  7:15           ` Liu ping fan

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