[PATCH] arm: mm: dump: don't skip final region

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Dec 8 09:55:03 PST 2014


On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 05:46:45PM +0000, Steve Capper wrote:
> After some head scratching....
> 
> Basically, the swapper_pg_dir will only contain kernel pgd entries. So
> at the beginning where one would normally user-space entries in a pgd
> table, there should be null entries that are skipped over. So yes, I
> agree, we should be able to remove the USER_PGTABLES_CEILING check.

The check is there to avoid noting anything about the lower entries.
There is the possibility for lower entries to contain something (the
low vector mapping), though you're probably right that we should
report those too.

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