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From: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>, Jan Willeke <willeke@de.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: mmap for /proc/vmcore broken since 3.12-rc1
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:12:47 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <524D0ADF.2010507@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131002140356.63706540@holzheu>

(2013/10/02 21:03), Michael Holzheu wrote:
> Hello Alexey,
>
> Looks like the following commit broke mmap for /proc/vmcore:
>
> commit c4fe24485729fc2cbff324c111e67a1cc2f9adea
> Author: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
> Date:   Tue Aug 20 22:17:24 2013 +0300
>
>      sparc: fix PCI device proc file mmap(2)
>
> Because /proc/vmcore (fs/proc/vmcore.c) does not implement the
> get_unmapped_area() fops function mmap now always returns EIO.
>
> Michael
>

I confirmed the bug on v3.12-rc3. According to makedumpfile's log,
mmap failed on /proc/vmcore.

mem_map (271)
   mem_map    : ffffea001da40000
   pfn_start  : 878000
   pfn_end    : 880000
Kernel can't mmap vmcore, using reads.
STEP [Excluding unnecessary pages] : 1.268799 seconds
STEP [Excluding unnecessary pages] : 1.268756 seconds
STEP [Copying data               ] : 44.847924 seconds
Writing erase info...

I'll post a patch later.

-- 
Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke


  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-03  6:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-02 12:03 mmap for /proc/vmcore broken since 3.12-rc1 Michael Holzheu
2013-10-03  6:12 ` HATAYAMA Daisuke [this message]
2013-10-07  2:42   ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-10-08 12:49     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2013-10-09 10:14       ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-10-12 20:32         ` Alexey Dobriyan
2013-10-14  4:52           ` HATAYAMA Daisuke

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