[PATCH 0/5] makedumpfile re-enable mmap

[Vivek Goyal]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 02:55:03PM +0800, WANG Chao wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to re-enable makedumpfile mmap(), since upstream patches are ready.
> 
> There are two commits that I want to backport:
> 1. makedumpfile: Fall back to read() when mmap() fails
> 2. makedumpfile: Add --non-mmap option to disable mmap() manually
> 
> #1 can be applied cleanly on top of our makedumpfile-1.5.4
> #2 has conflicts, so I bring in two addtional patches. These two patches are trivial.
> 
> I think it's worth to backport #2 to have a switch between mmap and read. It
> could be used as workaround when mmap has issues again.
> 
> v2 -> v1:
> - fix upstream commit id [dyoung]
> 

These patches look good to me.

Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>

Vivek

> WANG Chao (5):
>   makedumpfile: Revert "makedumpfile: disable mmap"
>   makedumpfile: Assign non-printable value as short options
>   makedumpfile: Add help and man message for '--help'
>   makedumpfile: Add --non-mmap option to disable mmap() manually
>   makedumpfile: Fall back to read() when mmap() fails
> 
>  ...umpfile-Add-help-and-man-message-for-help.patch |  43 ++++
>  ...-non-mmap-option-to-disable-mmap-manually.patch | 161 ++++++++++++++
>  ...ssign-non-printable-value-as-short-option.patch | 244 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  ...umpfile-Fall-back-to-read-when-mmap-fails.patch |  38 ++++
>  kexec-tools-2.0.4-makedumpfile-disable-mmap.patch  |  36 ---
>  kexec-tools.spec                                   |  11 +-
>  6 files changed, 494 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 kexec-tools-2.0.4-makedumpfile-Add-help-and-man-message-for-help.patch
>  create mode 100644 kexec-tools-2.0.4-makedumpfile-Add-non-mmap-option-to-disable-mmap-manually.patch
>  create mode 100644 kexec-tools-2.0.4-makedumpfile-Assign-non-printable-value-as-short-option.patch
>  create mode 100644 kexec-tools-2.0.4-makedumpfile-Fall-back-to-read-when-mmap-fails.patch
>  delete mode 100644 kexec-tools-2.0.4-makedumpfile-disable-mmap.patch
> 
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