linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 7/8] vmcore: calculate vmcore file size from buffer size and total size of vmcore objects

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Message-ID: <20130522204603.GC15738@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 May 2013 16:46:03 -0400
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, cpw@....com,
	kumagai-atsushi@....nes.nec.co.jp, lisa.mitchell@...com,
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	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 7/8] vmcore: calculate vmcore file size from buffer
 size and total size of vmcore objects

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:56:12AM +0900, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote:

[..]
> -static u64 __init get_vmcore_size_elf64(char *elfptr, size_t elfsz)
> +static u64 __init get_vmcore_size_elf64(size_t elfsz, size_t elfnotesegsz,
> +					struct list_head *vc_list)
>  {
> -	int i;
>  	u64 size;
> -	Elf64_Ehdr *ehdr_ptr;
> -	Elf64_Phdr *phdr_ptr;
> +	struct vmcore *m;
>  
> -	ehdr_ptr = (Elf64_Ehdr *)elfptr;
> -	phdr_ptr = (Elf64_Phdr*)(elfptr + sizeof(Elf64_Ehdr));
> -	size = elfsz;
> -	for (i = 0; i < ehdr_ptr->e_phnum; i++) {
> -		size += phdr_ptr->p_memsz;
> -		phdr_ptr++;
> +	size = elfsz + elfnotesegsz;
> +	list_for_each_entry(m, vc_list, list) {
> +		size += m->size;
>  	}
>  	return size;
>  }
>  
> -static u64 __init get_vmcore_size_elf32(char *elfptr, size_t elfsz)
> +static u64 __init get_vmcore_size_elf32(size_t elfsz, size_t elfnotesegsz,
> +					struct list_head *vc_list)
>  {
> -	int i;
>  	u64 size;
> -	Elf32_Ehdr *ehdr_ptr;
> -	Elf32_Phdr *phdr_ptr;
> +	struct vmcore *m;
>  
> -	ehdr_ptr = (Elf32_Ehdr *)elfptr;
> -	phdr_ptr = (Elf32_Phdr*)(elfptr + sizeof(Elf32_Ehdr));
> -	size = elfsz;
> -	for (i = 0; i < ehdr_ptr->e_phnum; i++) {
> -		size += phdr_ptr->p_memsz;
> -		phdr_ptr++;
> +	size = elfsz + elfnotesegsz;
> +	list_for_each_entry(m, vc_list, list) {
> +		size += m->size;


Now get_vmcore_size_elf64() and get_vmcore_size_elf32() function are same.
We can get rid of one and rename other get_vmcore_size().

Thanks
Vivek

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