Re: [RFC][PATCH v3 00/16] Introduce kmemdump

[Eugen Hristev]

On 9/12/25 18:56, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>
>> Changelog since the v2 of the RFC:
>> - V2 available here : 
>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250724135512.518487-1-eugen.hris...@linaro.org/
>> - Removed the .section as requested by David Hildenbrand.
>> - Moved all kmemdump registration(when possible) to vmcoreinfo.
>> - Because of this, some of the variables that I was registering had to be 
>> non-static
>> so I had to modify this as per David Hildenbrand suggestion.
>> - Fixed minor things in the Kinfo driver: one field was broken, fixed some
>> compiler warnings, fixed the copyright and remove some useless includes.
>> - Moved the whole kmemdump from drivers/debug into mm/ and Kconfigs into 
>> mm/Kconfig.debug
>> and it's now available in kernel hacking, as per Randy Dunlap review
>> - Reworked some of the Documentation as per review from Jon Corbet
> 
> IIUC, it's now only printk.c where we do kmemdump-related magic, right?
> 

Yes. The other places just have some changes such that I am able to
gather the data inside vmcoreinfo. (remove static, add some function to
get sizes)