From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752233Ab3KMXJD (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Nov 2013 18:09:03 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57386 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752166Ab3KMXIx (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Nov 2013 18:08:53 -0500 Message-ID: <52840666.5070800@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 15:08:22 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vivek Goyal CC: linux kernel mailing list , HATAYAMA Daisuke , Kexec Mailing List , Baoquan He , WANG Chao , Dave Young , "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: /proc/vmcore mmap() failure issue References: <20131113204130.GD7613@redhat.com> <20131113210432.GE7613@redhat.com> <5283EBCD.6070305@zytor.com> <20131113224104.GF7613@redhat.com> <528400DD.3040003@zytor.com> <20131113230056.GA19663@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20131113230056.GA19663@redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/13/2013 03:00 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote: > I think it should be easy to truncate ELF headers in kexec-tools too when > we are preparing elf headers. I am not sure if it is right thing to do or > not. If some entry is showing up in /proc/iomem as RAM, then kexec-tools > need to believe that it is a possibility that kernel is using that pfn and > that pfn needs to be dumped out in vmcore. IMHO, kernel should fix this > issue. The kernel will never use a fractional page, so that is not an issue. > Secondly, I am writing in-kernel kexec support too and I prepare ELF > headers there too. And I am facing the same problem there too. So if > we truncate partial pages in e820 both kexec-tools and in kernel kexec > implementation don't have to do anything. I'm mostly worried about truncation upon truncation causing problems. As long as the trimming is done once and with proper consideration for abutting regions, I guess I'm okay with it, although it feels wrong to me. -hpa