[PATCH v3 0/3] Convert vmcore to use an iov_iter

Baoquan He bhe at redhat.com
Tue Dec 21 00:06:26 PST 2021


On 12/13/21 at 02:39pm, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> For some reason several people have been sending bad patches to fix
> compiler warnings in vmcore recently.  Here's how it should be done.
> Compile-tested only on x86.  As noted in the first patch, s390 should
> take this conversion a bit further, but I'm not inclined to do that
> work myself.

Ack this series of patches.

Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>

> 
> v3:
>  - Send the correct patches this time
> v2:
>  - Removed unnecessary kernel-doc
>  - Included uio.h to fix compilation problems
>  - Made read_from_oldmem_iter static to avoid compile warnings during the
>    conversion
>  - Use iov_iter_truncate() (Christoph)
> 
> Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) (3):
>   vmcore: Convert copy_oldmem_page() to take an iov_iter
>   vmcore: Convert __read_vmcore to use an iov_iter
>   vmcore: Convert read_from_oldmem() to take an iov_iter
> 
>  arch/arm/kernel/crash_dump.c     |  27 +------
>  arch/arm64/kernel/crash_dump.c   |  29 +------
>  arch/ia64/kernel/crash_dump.c    |  32 +-------
>  arch/mips/kernel/crash_dump.c    |  27 +------
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c |  35 ++-------
>  arch/riscv/kernel/crash_dump.c   |  26 +------
>  arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c    |  13 ++--
>  arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c      |  29 ++-----
>  arch/x86/kernel/crash_dump_32.c  |  29 +------
>  arch/x86/kernel/crash_dump_64.c  |  48 ++++--------
>  fs/proc/vmcore.c                 | 129 +++++++++++++------------------
>  include/linux/crash_dump.h       |  19 ++---
>  12 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 321 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.33.0
> 




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