linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vmcore: disable mmap_vmcore() if CONFIG

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Message-Id: <201306101810.37960.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:10:37 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"kexec@...ts.infradead.org" <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmcore: disable mmap_vmcore() if CONFIG_MMU is not defined

On Monday 10 June 2013, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote:
> Also, on no-MMU configuration, because we don't export buffer for ELF
> note segment to user-space, we use vzalloc() to allocate the buffer.
> Therefore, we use differnet functions to allocate the buffer for ELF
> note segment. To avoid code duplication, introduce a helper
> alloc_elfnotes_buf().
> 
> Reported-by: Amd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>

Thanks

Note that my name is Arnd not Amd, otherwise

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
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