linux/fs/proc
Magnus Damm 921d58c0e6 vmcore: remove saved_max_pfn check
Remove the saved_max_pfn check from the /proc/vmcore function
read_from_oldmem().  No need to verify, we should be able to just trust
that "elfcorehdr=" is correctly passed to the crash kernel on the kernel
command line like we do with other parameters.

The read_from_oldmem() function in fs/proc/vmcore.c is quite similar to
read_from_oldmem() in drivers/char/mem.c, but only in the latter it makes
sense to use saved_max_pfn.  For oldmem it is used to determine when to
stop reading.  For vmcore we already have the elf header info pointing out
the physical memory regions, no need to pass the end-of- old-memory twice.

Removing the saved_max_pfn check from vmcore makes it possible for
architectures to skip oldmem but still support crash dump through vmcore -
without the need for the old saved_max_pfn cruft.

Architectures that want to play safe can do the saved_max_pfn check in
copy_oldmem_page().  Not sure why anyone would want to do that, but that's
even safer than today - the saved_max_pfn check in vmcore removed by this
patch only checks the first page.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08 08:31:14 -08:00
..
array.c CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds 2008-11-14 10:39:19 +11:00
base.c Merge branch 'proc-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc 2009-01-07 12:01:06 -08:00
cmdline.c proc: switch /proc/cmdline to seq_file 2008-10-23 14:29:04 +04:00
cpuinfo.c proc: move /proc/cpuinfo code to fs/proc/cpuinfo.c 2008-10-23 15:05:11 +04:00
devices.c proc: move /proc/devices code to fs/proc/devices.c 2008-10-23 15:02:18 +04:00
generic.c proc: stop using BKL 2009-01-05 12:27:44 +03:00
inode-alloc.txt
inode.c proc: stop using BKL 2009-01-05 12:27:44 +03:00
internal.h proc: move /proc/kmsg creation to fs/proc/kmsg.c 2008-10-23 14:35:08 +04:00
interrupts.c proc: move /proc/interrupts boilerplate code to fs/proc/interrupts.c 2008-10-23 15:15:46 +04:00
Kconfig proc: move PROC_PAGE_MONITOR to fs/proc/Kconfig 2008-10-10 04:18:57 +04:00
kcore.c proc: move all /proc/kcore stuff to fs/proc/kcore.c 2008-10-23 18:32:38 +04:00
kmsg.c proc: move /proc/kmsg creation to fs/proc/kmsg.c 2008-10-23 14:35:08 +04:00
loadavg.c proc: switch /proc/loadavg to seq_file 2008-10-23 13:45:28 +04:00
Makefile proc: remove fs/proc/proc_misc.c 2008-10-23 18:54:05 +04:00
meminfo.c proc: switch /proc/meminfo to seq_file 2008-10-23 13:52:40 +04:00
mmu.c
nommu.c /proc/self/maps doesn't display the real file offset 2008-08-20 15:40:30 -07:00
page.c proc: move pagecount stuff to fs/proc/page.c 2008-10-23 18:48:31 +04:00
proc_devtree.c powerpc: Remove `have_of' global variable 2008-12-16 15:52:57 +11:00
proc_net.c proc: stop using BKL 2009-01-05 12:27:44 +03:00
proc_sysctl.c zero i_uid/i_gid on inode allocation 2009-01-05 11:54:28 -05:00
proc_tty.c
root.c proc: stop using BKL 2009-01-05 12:27:44 +03:00
stat.c proc: remove ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ from stat.c 2008-12-26 09:48:18 +01:00
task_mmu.c mm: report the MMU pagesize in /proc/pid/smaps 2009-01-06 15:58:58 -08:00
task_nommu.c trivial: fix then -> than typos in comments and documentation 2009-01-06 11:28:06 +01:00
uptime.c proc: revert /proc/uptime to ->read_proc hook 2008-10-27 22:56:56 +03:00
version.c proc: switch /proc/version to seq_file 2008-10-23 14:19:58 +04:00
vmcore.c vmcore: remove saved_max_pfn check 2009-01-08 08:31:14 -08:00