linux-kernel - Re: [RFC Patch 1/2] kexec: show memory info in /proc/iomem

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Message-ID: <4A82182C.1080501@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:17:32 +0800
From:	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...hat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch 1/2] kexec: show memory info in /proc/iomem

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com> writes:
>
>   
>> This patch implements showing kexec memory area via /proc/iomem.
>> For example, with this patch we can see:
>>
>> # cat /proc/iomem
>> ...
>> 00100000-7ffeffff : System RAM
>>   01000000-012e1424 : Kernel code
>>   012e1425-015f1aff : Kernel data
>>   0166b000-01b4b88f : Kernel bss
>>   02000000-083fffff : Crash kernel
>>     02000000-028fffff : Used
>>     02900000-083fffff : Unused
>> ...
>>
>> So that user can know how much memory the kernel uses for crash kernel.
>>     
>
> Nacked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
>
> We can inspect the image we are going to load to get this information.
> In fact /sbin/kexec already inspects the image we are going to load
> to get this information.  Putting this in the kernel adds kernel
> complexity for no gain.
>   

/sbin/kexec is supported to know this, of course. But this is not for 
/sbin/kexec, this is for user (or other programs) to observe the memory 
information, so that he can know the memory he reserved is too much or not.

Without this, it is a little hard to use patch 2/2.

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