vmcore: allocate buffer for ELF headers on page-size alignment
Allocate ELF headers on page-size boundary using __get_free_pages()
instead of kmalloc().
Later patch will merge PT_NOTE entries into a single unique one and
decrease the buffer size actually used. Keep original buffer size in
variable elfcorebuf_sz_orig to kfree the buffer later and actually used
buffer size with rounded up to page-size boundary in variable
elfcorebuf_sz separately.
The size of part of the ELF buffer exported from /proc/vmcore is
elfcorebuf_sz.
The merged, removed PT_NOTE entries, i.e. the range [elfcorebuf_sz,
elfcorebuf_sz_orig], is filled with 0.
Use size of the ELF headers as an initial offset value in
set_vmcore_list_offsets_elf{64,32} and
process_ptload_program_headers_elf{64,32} in order to indicate that the
offset includes the holes towards the page boundary.
As a result, both set_vmcore_list_offsets_elf{64,32} have the same
definition. Merge them as set_vmcore_list_offsets.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add free_elfcorebuf(), cleanups]
Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Lisa Mitchell <lisa.mitchell@hp.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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