[PATCH v6 0/8] add a new interface to show the memory usage of 1st kernel

[bhe at redhat.com]

On 09/02/14 at 06:20am, Atsushi Kumagai wrote:
> Hello Baoquan,
> 

> >[patch 6/8] introduce-a-function-exclude_zero_pages_cyclic
> >v3->v4:
> >    Newly introduce a function exclude_zero_pages_cyclic(), and call it in
> >    get_num_dumpable_cyclic().
> >
> >    Besides, a strange thing happened when the new interface was tested on
> >    my local AMD machine. It always terminated and printed message:
> >    "Program terminated with signal SIGKILL"
> >    With gdb, it should be going in readmem() of exclude_zero_pages_cyclic, I
> >    still don't know why it happened.
> 
> This issue is still under investigation, but it may be a kernel issue
> since you just read a page of System RAM via /proc/kcore. At least your
> patches look good to me, I'll merge them into v1.5.7. Good job!

Hi Atsushi,

Thanks for help on this patchset.

For this issue happened on AMD machine, I will try to look into it deeper
later. Saw the mail you mentioned that someone has reported the simillar
bug, will check it.

Thanks
Baoquan


> 
> 
> Thanks
> Atsushi Kumagai
> 
> >