| From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:17:42 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 16/21] kexec: fill note buffers by NT_VMCORE_PAD notes in page-size boundary |
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HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> writes:
> Fill both crash_notes and vmcoreinfo_note buffers by NT_VMCORE_PAD > note type to make them satisfy mmap()'s page-size boundary > requirement.
The requirement does not exist. Making this change wasteful wrong, and potentially a ABI change between the first and second kernels.
Further I believe if you check that final_note comes out of the ELF spec for note segments.
Eric
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