Commit 122c7a59 authored Apr 28, 2008 by Ken'ichi Ohmichi Committed by Linus Torvalds Apr 28, 2008

vmcoreinfo: add page flags values

Add some values of page flags to the vmcoreinfo data.

The vmcoreinfo data has the minimum debugging information only for dump
filtering.  makedumpfile (dump filtering command) gets it to distinguish
unnecessary pages, and makedumpfile creates a small dumpfile.

An old makedumpfile (v1.2.4 or before) had assumed some values of page flags
internally, and this implementation could not follow the change of these
values.  For example, Christoph Lameter is changing these values by the
follwing patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/29/463



So a new makedumpfile (v1.2.5) came to need these values and I created this
patch to let the kernel output them.

Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent a08cb629

kernel/kexec.c

+3 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1405,6 +1405,9 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init(void)
		VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(zone.free_area, MAX_ORDER);
		VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(free_area.free_list, MIGRATE_TYPES);
		VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(NR_FREE_PAGES);
		VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(PG_lru);
		VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(PG_private);
		VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(PG_swapcache);

		arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo();

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