On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 09:56:57AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote: > On 11/20/13 at 12:50pm, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > + * that kexec_mutex is held. > > + */ > > I think kexec_add_buffer is guaranteed to be called before allocating > control pages, why not updating image->control_page after each time > kexec_add_buffer is called. Then when control page is needed, effective > address in crash_kernel region can be given. This can be a little more > efficient.
image->control_page controls the lowest address available for control pages in crash kernel region. When we do kexec_add_buffer, we don't necessarily know whether there is an empty page available between segments or not. Also, existing logic for kexec does not update the image->control_page when segments are being copied. So I think this does not offer any huge benefits and it is not performance critical path. I will just leave it as it is. Thanks Vivek -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
