linux/fs/proc
Olaf Hering 997c136f51 fs/proc/vmcore.c: add hook to read_from_oldmem() to check for non-ram pages
The balloon driver in a Xen guest frees guest pages and marks them as
mmio.  When the kernel crashes and the crash kernel attempts to read the
oldmem via /proc/vmcore a read from ballooned pages will generate 100%
load in dom0 because Xen asks qemu-dm for the page content.  Since the
reads come in as 8byte requests each ballooned page is tried 512 times.

With this change a hook can be registered which checks wether the given
pfn is really ram.  The hook has to return a value > 0 for ram pages, a
value < 0 on error (because the hypercall is not known) and 0 for non-ram
pages.

This will reduce the time to read /proc/vmcore.  Without this change a
512M guest with 128M crashkernel region needs 200 seconds to read it, with
this change it takes just 2 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26 17:12:37 -07:00
..
array.c proc: constify status array 2011-05-26 17:12:36 -07:00
base.c proc: put check_mem_permission after __get_free_page in mem_write 2011-05-26 17:12:37 -07:00
cmdline.c
consoles.c
cpuinfo.c
devices.c
generic.c airo: correct proc entry creation interfaces 2011-05-16 14:25:28 -04:00
inode.c ns: proc files for namespace naming policy. 2011-05-10 14:31:44 -07:00
internal.h Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/linux-2.6-nsfd 2011-05-25 18:10:16 -07:00
interrupts.c
Kconfig
kcore.c
kmsg.c
loadavg.c
Makefile ns: proc files for namespace naming policy. 2011-05-10 14:31:44 -07:00
meminfo.c
mmu.c
namespaces.c ns proc: Return -ENOENT for a nonexistent /proc/self/ns/ entry. 2011-05-24 15:30:33 -07:00
nommu.c
page.c
proc_devtree.c
proc_net.c
proc_sysctl.c
proc_tty.c
root.c procfs: kill the global proc_mnt variable 2011-03-23 19:46:58 -07:00
softirqs.c
stat.c proc/stat: use defined macro KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE 2011-05-26 17:12:37 -07:00
task_mmu.c proc: fix pagemap_read() error case 2011-05-26 17:12:37 -07:00
task_nommu.c report errors in /proc/*/*map* sanely 2011-03-23 16:36:50 -04:00
uptime.c
version.c
vmcore.c fs/proc/vmcore.c: add hook to read_from_oldmem() to check for non-ram pages 2011-05-26 17:12:37 -07:00