[RFC PATCH 0/5] crash dump bitmap: scan memory pages in kernel to speedup kernel dump process

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/08/2013 02:06 AM, Jingbai Ma wrote:
> 
> Kernel do have some abilities that user space haven't. It's possible to
> map whole memory space of the first kernel into user space on the second
> kernel. But the user space code has to re-implement some parts of the
> kernel memory management system again. And worse, it's architecture
> dependent, more architectures supported, more codes have to be
> implemented. All implementation in user space must be sync to kernel
> implementation. It's may called "flexibility", but it's painful to
> maintain the codes.
> 

What?  You are basically talking about /dev/mem... there is nothing
particularly magic about it at all.

	-hpa

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