x86, kdump: Change copy_oldmem_page() to use cached addressing
authorCliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 15:14:27 +0000 (10:14 -0500)
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Thu, 6 Jan 2011 23:08:21 +0000 (18:08 -0500)
commit66226f90917ddca36b97bdeda52dbe266d818c14
treec3c330c804994febe4fa20bda09620c821effe9e
parentead2c1440b100dc3b7013155474c325cdf186a3d
x86, kdump: Change copy_oldmem_page() to use cached addressing

commit 37a2f9f30a360fb03522d15c85c78265ccd80287 upstream.

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
LKML-Reference: <E1OtMLz-0001yp-Ia@eag09.americas.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
arch/x86/kernel/crash_dump_64.c