linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/13] vmcore: introduce types for objects copied in 2nd kernel

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Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:07:17 -0500
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, cpw@....com,
	kumagai-atsushi@....nes.nec.co.jp, lisa.mitchell@...com,
	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/13] vmcore: introduce types for objects copied in 2nd
 kernel

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 01:06:31AM +0900, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote:

[..]
> This sounds strange to me. There has not been contents to be fetched
> from current kenrel so far. So, object with MEM_TYPE_OLDMEM seems more
> normal than without. Should we prepare special type for objects in 2nd
> kernel?

Creating a flag for memory in current kernel and if flag is not set, then
assuming memory comes from old kernel is fine too.

Thanks
Vivek
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