[RFC PATCH 0/8] remove vm_struct list management

[JoonSoo Kim]

2012/12/7 Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>:
> On Fri,  7 Dec 2012 01:09:27 +0900
> Joonsoo Kim <js1304 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure that "7/8: makes vmlist only for kexec" is fine.
>> Because it is related to userspace program.
>> As far as I know, makedumpfile use kexec's output information and it only
>> need first address of vmalloc layer. So my implementation reflect this
>> fact, but I'm not sure. And now, I don't fully test this patchset.
>> Basic operation work well, but I don't test kexec. So I send this
>> patchset with 'RFC'.
>
> Yes, this is irritating.  Perhaps Vivek or one of the other kexec
> people could take a look at this please - if would obviously be much
> better if we can avoid merging [patch 7/8] at all.

I'm not sure, but I almost sure that [patch 7/8] have no problem.
In kexec.c, they write an address of vmlist and offset of vm_struct's
address field.
It imply that user for this information doesn't have any other
information about vm_struct,
and they can't use other field of vm_struct. They can use *only* address field.
So, remaining just one vm_struct for vmlist which represent first area
of vmalloc layer
may be safe.

But, kexec people may be very helpful to validate this patch.

Thanks.