[PATCH] scan page tables for makedumpfile, 3.0.13 kernel

2012-11-21 Thread Cliff Wickman
From: Cliff Wickman This patch provides the kernel support for makedumpfile to request a list of PFNs. Accompanies [PATCH v2] makedumpfile: request the kernel do page scans --- fs/proc/vmcore.c | 570 +++ include/linux/makedumpfile.h |

[PATCH] scan page tables for makedumpfile

2012-11-15 Thread Cliff Wickman
Accompanies [PATCH] makedumpfile: request the kernel do page scans This patch moves the scanning of page tables into the kernel. The makedumpfile command makes requests by writes to /proc/vmcore_pfn_lists and this code writes a list of PFN's back to it. This is experimental code. It is tested