[RFC][PATCH 1/3] Embed vmcoreinfo into kernel file

[Bernhard Walle]

* Dan Aloni <da-x at monatomic.org> [2007-08-13 19:38]:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 04:36:53PM +0900, Ken'ichi Ohmichi wrote:
> >[..]
> > Patches:
> > - [1/3] patch for linux-2.6.22.
> >   Changelog:
> >   * Rename "mkdfinfo" to "vmcoreinfo".
> >   * Multi memory models (FLATMEM, DISCONTIGMEM, and SPASEMEM) are
> >     supported.
> >   * The elf note typedef for vmcoreinfo is added because the original
> >     elf note size is limited to 1024.
> >   * The generation of the elf note is moved to boot time instead of
> >     crash time.
> 
> This looks very good. Just one suggestion - in order to reduce clutter 
> from kernel/kexec.c (as to avoid #ifdefs) perhaps it might be better 
> to have crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init() additionally call an arch-specific 
> arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init() function and have that append all 
> the arch-specific stuff.

Because the only architecture that is really different is IA64, it may
make sense here to provide a default implementation that is used on
any architecture and declared as __attribute__((weak)). Then, any
architecture (here: IA64) can override that implementation. That would
avoid code duplication.

The rest looks good from my point of view. I'd like to see that in the
mainline kernel. :)



Thanks,
   Bernhard