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Cliff Wickman authored
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: default avatarCliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Acked-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # as far back as it would apply
LKML-Reference: <E1OtMLz-0001yp-Ia@eag09.americas.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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