[PATCH v8 9/9] vmcore: support mmap() on /proc/vmcore

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thursday 23 May 2013 14:25:48 HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote:
> This patch introduces mmap_vmcore().
> 
> Don't permit writable nor executable mapping even with mprotect()
> because this mmap() is aimed at reading crash dump memory.
> Non-writable mapping is also requirement of remap_pfn_range() when
> mapping linear pages on non-consecutive physical pages; see
> is_cow_mapping().
> 
> Set VM_MIXEDMAP flag to remap memory by remap_pfn_range and by
> remap_vmalloc_range_pertial at the same time for a single
> vma. do_munmap() can correctly clean partially remapped vma with two
> functions in abnormal case. See zap_pte_range(), vm_normal_page() and
> their comments for details.
> 
> On x86-32 PAE kernels, mmap() supports at most 16TB memory only. This
> limitation comes from the fact that the third argument of
> remap_pfn_range(), pfn, is of 32-bit length on x86-32: unsigned long.
> 
> Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com>
> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>

I get build errors on 'make randconfig' from this, when building
NOMMU kernels on ARM. I suppose the new feature should be hidden
in #ifdef CONFIG_MMU.

	Arnd