Commit 37a2f9f3 authored by Cliff Wickman's avatar Cliff Wickman Committed by Ingo Molnar

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: default avatarCliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Acked-by: default avatar"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: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 1c5f50ee
...@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long pfn, char *buf, ...@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long pfn, char *buf,
if (!csize) if (!csize)
return 0; return 0;
vaddr = ioremap(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_SIZE); vaddr = ioremap_cache(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_SIZE);
if (!vaddr) if (!vaddr)
return -ENOMEM; return -ENOMEM;
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