[RFC PATCH v2 3/3] resource, crash: Make kexec_file_load support pmem

[Zhijian Li (Fujitsu)]

Greg,

Sorry for these *BAD* changelog, This patch is most like a *HACKing* to resource.c currently.
Please allow me to rewrite it once.

Only the region described by PT_LOADs of /proc/vmcore are dumpable/readble by dumping applications.
Previously, on x86/x86_64 only system ram resources will be injected into PT_LOADs.

So in order to make the entire pmem resource is dumpable/readable, we need to add pmem region
into the PT_LOADs of /proc/vmcore.

Here we introduce a new API walk_pmem_res() to walk the pmem region first. Further, we will also
mark pmem region with extra p_flags PF_DEV when it's adding into PT_LOADs.
Then the dumping applications are able to know if the region is pmem or not according this flag
and take special actions correspondingly.

Thanks
Zhijian


On 27/04/2023 19:39, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 06:18:34PM +0800, Li Zhijian wrote:
>> It does:
>> 1. Add pmem region into PT_LOADs of vmcore
>> 2. Mark pmem region's p_flags as PF_DEV
> 
> I'm sorry, but I can not parse this changelog.
> 
> Please take a look at the kernel documentation for how to write a good
> changelog message so that we can properly review the change you wish to
> have accepted.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h