[PATCH 1/6] powerpc/spufs: simplify spufs core dumping

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Mon Apr 6 23:12:45 AEST 2020


On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 2:03 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> wrote:
>
> Replace the coredump ->read method with a ->dump method that must call
> dump_emit itself.  That way we avoid a buffer allocation an messing with
> set_fs() to call into code that is intended to deal with user buffers.
> For the ->get case we can now use a small on-stack buffer and avoid
> memory allocations as well.

I had no memory of this code at all, but your change looks fine to me.
Amazingly you even managed to even make it smaller and more readable

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>


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