[PATCH] Use progress bar also for bitmap creation

[Jay Lan]

Bernhard Walle wrote:
> * Ken'ichi Ohmichi [2008-07-07 11:50]:
>> Ken'ichi Ohmichi wrote:
>>> Hi Bernhard,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your patch.
>>> I like this idea :-)
>>>
>>> I am busy now, and I will consider the patch well the next week.
>> Thank you for the patch, and sorry for my late response.
>>
>> I added the progress bar for excluding free pages to your patch.
>> Could you please check the attached patch ?
>> If there is no problem in the attached patch, I will release the
>> next release with this patch.
> 
> I also tested on a larger SGI machine. Here the exclusion of the memory
> holes takes a considerable amount of time. Therefore, I would suggest
> to also use the patch below:

By "memory holes", did you mean zero value memory or memory gap
as you can see from /proc/iomem?  For example,
  26003000000-26033dfffff : System RAM
  26033e00000-260f7ffffff : System RAM  <-- big gap b/t this and next
  26800000000-268f7ffffff : System RAM

If latter, the gap represents address gap between nodes and are
non-existent memory. We do not need to spend time on non-existent
memory.

Regards,
 - jay


> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de>
> 
> Index: makedumpfile.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/makedumpfile/makedumpfile/makedumpfile.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.7.2.36
> diff -u -r1.7.2.36 makedumpfile.c
> --- makedumpfile.c	8 Jul 2008 01:31:44 -0000	1.7.2.36
> +++ makedumpfile.c	8 Jul 2008 15:41:18 -0000
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
>   * Message texts
>   */
>  #define PROGRESS_COPY   	"Copying data"
> +#define PROGRESS_HOLES		"Checking for memory holes"
>  #define PROGRESS_UNN_PAGES 	"Excluding unnecessary pages"
>  #define PROGRESS_FREE_PAGES 	"Excluding free pages"
>  #define PROGRESS_ZERO_PAGES 	"Excluding zero pages"
> @@ -4068,11 +4069,20 @@
>  	 */
>  	for (pfn = 0, paddr = 0; pfn < info->max_mapnr;
>  	    pfn++, paddr += info->page_size) {
> +
> +		print_progress(PROGRESS_HOLES, pfn, info->max_mapnr);
> +
>  		if (is_in_segs(paddr))
>  			set_bit_on_1st_bitmap(pfn);
>  		else
>  			pfn_memhole++;
>  	}
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * print 100 %
> +	 */
> +	print_progress(PROGRESS_HOLES, info->max_mapnr, info->max_mapnr);
> +
>  	if (!sync_1st_bitmap())
>  		goto out;
>  
> 
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