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WANG Chao
89a4cb24e0 makedumpfile: Add --non-mmap option to disable mmap() manually
This is a backport of the following upstream commit:

commit a895dc8
Author: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Date:   Thu Dec 12 16:40:12 2013 +0900

    [PATCH] Add --non-mmap option to disable mmap() manually.

    When --non-mmap option is specified, makedumpfile doesn't use
    mmap() even if /proc/vmcore supports mmap().

    Signed-off-by: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>

Having this patch, user can switch between mmap() and read() when
accessing vmcore. Whenever user feels necessary to use readmem on vmcore
(buggy code in mmap path, debug purpose, etc.), --non-mmap can do this
favor.

Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
2014-01-17 11:32:48 +08:00