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>
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