From: "Ken'ichi Ohmichi" This patch adds the array length of "free_area.free_list" to the vmcoreinfo data so that makedumpfile (dump filtering command) can exclude all free pages in linux-2.6.24. makedumpfile creates a small dumpfile by excluding unnecessary pages for the analysis. To distinguish unnecessary pages, makedumpfile gets the vmcoreinfo data which has the minimum debugging information only for dump filtering. In 2.6.24-rc1 or later, the free_area.free_list is an array which has one list for each migrate types instead of a single list. makedumpfile needs the array length of "free_area.free_list" and the vmcoreinfo data should contain it. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying Tested-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi Acked-by: Simon Horman Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/kexec.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN kernel/kexec.c~vmcoreinfo-add-the-array-length-of-free_list-for-filtering-free-pages kernel/kexec.c --- a/kernel/kexec.c~vmcoreinfo-add-the-array-length-of-free_list-for-filtering-free-pages +++ a/kernel/kexec.c @@ -1404,6 +1404,7 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_ VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(list_head, next); VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(list_head, prev); VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(zone.free_area, MAX_ORDER); + VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(free_area.free_list, MIGRATE_TYPES); VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(NR_FREE_PAGES); arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(); _