[PATCH v6 3/5] vmcore: Introduce remap_oldmem_pfn_range()
Michael Holzheu
holzheu at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Jul 3 09:59:33 EDT 2013
On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 11:42:14 -0400
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 09:32:37PM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote:
[snip]
> > This handler works as follows:
> >
> > * Get already available or new page from page cache (find_or_create_page)
> > * Check if /proc/vmcore page is filled with data (PageUptodate)
> > * If yes:
> > Return that page
> > * If no:
> > Fill page using __vmcore_read(), set PageUptodate, and return page
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> In general vmcore related changes look fine to me. I am not very familiar
> with the logic of finding pages in page cache and using page uptodate
> flag.
>
> Hatayama, can you please review it.
>
> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>
Hello Vivek,
If Hatayama accepts the patch, should we then send the patch series to
Andrew Morton?
Michael
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