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authorCliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>2010-09-08 10:14:27 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-09-09 09:46:23 +0200
commit37a2f9f30a360fb03522d15c85c78265ccd80287 (patch)
treebcc77b64a38aff205daacea238cf0586e8301c68
parent1c5f50ee347daea013671f718b70cd6bf497bef9 (diff)
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x86, kdump: Change copy_oldmem_page() to use cached addressing
The copy of /proc/vmcore to a user buffer proceeds much faster if the kernel addresses memory as cached. With this patch we have seen an increase in transfer rate from less than 15MB/s to 80-460MB/s, depending on size of the transfer. This makes a big difference in time needed to save a system dump. Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # as far back as it would apply LKML-Reference: <E1OtMLz-0001yp-Ia@eag09.americas.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/crash_dump_64.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/crash_dump_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/crash_dump_64.c
index 045b36cada65..bf43188ca654 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/crash_dump_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/crash_dump_64.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long pfn, char *buf,
if (!csize)
return 0;
- vaddr = ioremap(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_SIZE);
+ vaddr = ioremap_cache(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_SIZE);
if (!vaddr)
return -ENOMEM;
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