[PATCH v3 0/2] Generic multi-page exclusion

Petr Tesarik ptesarik at suse.cz
Tue May 13 20:05:14 PDT 2014


On Wed,  7 May 2014 19:06:41 +0200
Petr Tesarik <ptesarik at suse.cz> wrote:

> Kumagai-san,
> 
> this patch was inspired by this post of yours:
> 
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2013-November/010445.html
> 
> Unfortunately, this rewrite never happened, so I took the liberty of
> overtaking the job. I hope you don't mind.
> 
> This is a preparatory series to add hugepage support without having
> to care about the appropriate size of the cyclic buffer.

Kumagai-san,

what is the status of this patch set now? Forgotten, or are you looking
at it?

Regards,
Petr T

> Changelog:
> * v2:
>   - Keep excluded regions per mem_map_data
>   - Process excluded pages in chunks
> 
> * v3:
>   - Keep excluded region extents in struct cycle
> 
> Petr Tesarik (2):
>   Generic handling of multi-page exclusions
>   Get rid of overrun adjustments
> 
>  makedumpfile.c | 108 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------------
>  makedumpfile.h |   5 +++
>  2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)
> 




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