Re: [PATCH 1/3] vmcore: Convert copy_oldmem_page() to take an iov_iter

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Sun Dec 12 2021 - 20:35:25 EST


On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 12:06:34AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/crash_dump.c
> @@ -27,9 +27,8 @@
> * @buf. If @buf is in userspace, set @userbuf to %1. Returns number of bytes
> * copied or negative error in case of failure.
> */
> -ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long pfn, char *buf,
> - size_t csize, unsigned long offset,
> - int userbuf)
> +ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(struct iov_iter *iter, unsigned long pfn,
> + size_t csize, unsigned long offset)
> {
> void *vaddr;
>

I forgot to mention that I didn't adjust the kernel-doc. I'm tempted to
remove it entirely, to be honest. It's not included into the rst files,
and having the documentation repeated ten times across arch directories
isn't useful.