[PATCH 04/13] vmcore: introduce types for objects copied in 2nd kernel

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at redhat.com
Tue Feb 19 18:07:17 EST 2013


On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 01:06:31AM +0900, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote:

[..]
> This sounds strange to me. There has not been contents to be fetched
> from current kenrel so far. So, object with MEM_TYPE_OLDMEM seems more
> normal than without. Should we prepare special type for objects in 2nd
> kernel?

Creating a flag for memory in current kernel and if flag is not set, then
assuming memory comes from old kernel is fine too.

Thanks
Vivek



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