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Message-ID: <20091002033508.GA8436@basil.fritz.box>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 05:35:08 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com, stable@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH] x86: Use ioremap_cache() for crash dump copies
During code review I noticed that when reading the previous kernel
memory from a kdump kernel ioremap() is used. This was ok before
the PAT changes, but with PAT ioremap() this results in an uncached
mapping, which is very slow.
Change it to ioremap_cache(). This is fine because this code
only reads real memory, no IO mappings.
I haven't run numbers, but I suspect this will speed up crash dumping
somewhat.
Only affects 64bit, 32bit uses a different method.
Might be a stable candidate.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/crash_dump_64.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/crash_dump_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/crash_dump_64.c
index 045b36c..bf43188 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/crash_dump_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/crash_dump_64.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long pfn, char *buf,
if (!csize)
return 0;
- vaddr = ioremap(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_SIZE);
+ vaddr = ioremap_cache(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_SIZE);
if (!vaddr)
return -ENOMEM;
--
1.6.0.2
--
ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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