Re: [PATCH 0/4] kcore: cleanup and fix bahavior to find physcal memory range v2

Amerigo Wang
2009-07-22T05:50:26Z

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 02:06:13PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
>I'm sorry I can't find who should be in CC.
>

Just keep the original CC's, or run scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f fs/proc/kcore.c.
:-)

>This includes some amounts changes to arch-specici code,
>but very special codes for kcore. Can I test this in -mm if no objections ?
>
>Now, /proc/kcore 's physical memory information is set up at boot
>via kclist_add(). But it's not updated at memory hotplug etc and
>it can include much memory holes. This patch is for generatinc /proc/kcore
>based on memory management information maintained by the kernel.
>
> For usual archs, /proc/iomem is used
> For ppc, lmb information will be used.
>

This is a good idea!