(2013/05/24 18:02), Maxim Uvarov wrote:



2013/5/24 Andrew Morton <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]>>

    On Thu, 23 May 2013 14:25:48 +0900 HATAYAMA Daisuke <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

     > This patch introduces mmap_vmcore().
     >
     > Don't permit writable nor executable mapping even with mprotect()
     > because this mmap() is aimed at reading crash dump memory.
     > Non-writable mapping is also requirement of remap_pfn_range() when
     > mapping linear pages on non-consecutive physical pages; see
     > is_cow_mapping().
     >
     > Set VM_MIXEDMAP flag to remap memory by remap_pfn_range and by
     > remap_vmalloc_range_pertial at the same time for a single
     > vma. do_munmap() can correctly clean partially remapped vma with two
     > functions in abnormal case. See zap_pte_range(), vm_normal_page() and
     > their comments for details.
     >
     > On x86-32 PAE kernels, mmap() supports at most 16TB memory only. This
     > limitation comes from the fact that the third argument of
     > remap_pfn_range(), pfn, is of 32-bit length on x86-32: unsigned long.

    More reviewing and testing, please.


Do you have git pull for both kernel and userland changes? I would like to do 
some more testing on my machines.

Maxim.

Thanks! That's very helpful.

--
Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke

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