Re: [PATCH v1 3/8] kexec: export PG_offline to VMCOREINFO

[Baoquan He]

On 11/19/18 at 11:16am, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
> index 933cb3e45b98..093c9f917ed0 100644
> --- a/kernel/crash_core.c
> +++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
> @@ -464,6 +464,8 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init(void)
>  	VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE);
>  #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
>  	VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(HUGETLB_PAGE_DTOR);
> +#define PAGE_OFFLINE_MAPCOUNT_VALUE	(~PG_offline)
> +	VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(PAGE_OFFLINE_MAPCOUNT_VALUE);
>  #endif

This solution looks good to me. One small concern is why we don't
export PG_offline to vmcoreinfo directly, then define
PAGE_OFFLINE_MAPCOUNT_VALUE in makedumpfile. We have been exporting
kernel data/MACRO directly, why this one is exceptional.

Thanks
Baoquan