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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add hook to read_from_oldmem() to check for non-ram pages
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 21:39:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110506193916.GA26129@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110506123019.80461d5d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, May 06, Andrew Morton wrote:

> So as your module will have a reference to vmcore.c's register and unregister
> functions, nothing needs to be done: the presence of the client module alone
> will pin the vmcore.c module.

I meant the other way around. Keep /proc/vmcore open and read from it,
then try to rmmod foo.ko which provides fn().

Olaf

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-06 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-07  9:56 dynamic oldmem in kdump kernel Olaf Hering
2011-04-07 10:23 ` Américo Wang
2011-04-07 13:12   ` Olaf Hering
2011-04-08 10:49     ` Américo Wang
2011-05-02 10:22 ` Olaf Hering
2011-05-03 19:08 ` [PATCH] add hook to read_from_oldmem() to check for non-ram pages Olaf Hering
2011-05-05 21:25   ` Andrew Morton
2011-05-06 10:55     ` Olaf Hering
2011-05-06 19:30       ` Andrew Morton
2011-05-06 19:39         ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2011-05-06 19:55           ` Andrew Morton
2011-05-06 13:20   ` [PATCH v2] " Olaf Hering

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