Re: [PATCH] crash_core: export vmemmap when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is enabled

From: Shijie Huang
Date: Tue Jan 16 2024 - 20:33:05 EST


Hi Andrew,

在 2023/12/21 12:12, Baoquan He 写道:
On 11/27/23 at 10:07am, Huang Shijie wrote:
In memory_model.h, if CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is configed,
kernel will use vmemmap to do the __pfn_to_page/page_to_pfn,
and kernel will not use the "classic sparse" to do the
__pfn_to_page/page_to_pfn.

So export the vmemmap when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is configed.
This makes the user applications (crash, etc) get faster
pfn_to_page/page_to_pfn operations too.

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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kernel/crash_core.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
Ack this one as it's needed by crash utility patches.

Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>

Could you please merge this patch?


Thanks

Huang Shijie