[PATCH] add hook to read_from_oldmem() to check for non-ram pages

Olaf Hering olaf at aepfle.de
Fri May 6 15:39:16 EDT 2011


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



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