[Crash-utility] [PATCH 2/2] diskdump: Print total number of dumpable pages

Roman Bolshakov r.bolshakov at yadro.com
Wed Jun 2 15:56:51 UTC 2021


It's not clear how broken an incomplete dump from the existing debugging
prints. Aggregate number of valid pages helps to figure out approximate
size of the dump. Size of a complete dump is roughly:

  EXPECTED_CORE_SIZE = a few pages (kdump headers + bitmaps + descriptors) +
                       (total_valid_pages * block_size) * compression rate

An incomplete core would be significantly smaller than:

	total_valid_pages * block_size

Signed-off-by: Roman Bolshakov <r.bolshakov at yadro.com>
---
 diskdump.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/diskdump.c b/diskdump.c
index c05f1ec..1428141 100644
--- a/diskdump.c
+++ b/diskdump.c
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ struct diskdump_data {
 	ulong	evictions;		/* total evictions done */
 	ulong	cached_reads;
 	ulong  *valid_pages;
+	ulong   total_valid_pages;      /* expected number of dumpable pages */
 	ulong   accesses;
 	ulong	snapshot_task;
 };
@@ -877,11 +878,14 @@ restart:
 	}
 
 	dd->valid_pages = calloc(sizeof(ulong), max_sect_len + 1);
+	dd->total_valid_pages = 0;
 	for (i = 1; i < max_sect_len + 1; i++) {
 		dd->valid_pages[i] = dd->valid_pages[i - 1];
 		for (j = 0; j < BITMAP_SECT_LEN; j++, pfn++)
-			if (page_is_dumpable(pfn))
+			if (page_is_dumpable(pfn)) {
 				dd->valid_pages[i]++;
+				dd->total_valid_pages++;
+			}
 	}
 
         return TRUE;
@@ -2090,6 +2094,7 @@ __diskdump_memory_dump(FILE *fp)
 	else
 		fprintf(fp, "\n");
 	fprintf(fp, "       valid_pages: %lx\n", (ulong)dd->valid_pages);
+	fprintf(fp, " total_valid_pages: %lx\n", dd->total_valid_pages);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.31.1





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