[minicoredumper] Dumping memory region with multiple physical areas

[John Ogness]

On 2016-06-10, John Ogness <john.ogness at linutronix.de> wrote:
>> When dumping the whole bss-area with mcd_dump_data_register_bin() we
>> get a smaller area dumped.  When looking in the implementation it
>> looks as if we only get the first contiguous physical memory area (or
>> what we get with dump_vma). Is that how it is implemented?
>
> You are correct. If a dump length goes beyond a single vma, the dump
> is truncated to the end of the vma. This is a bug that needs to be
> fixed.

A fix for this problem has been committed to master [0].

John Ogness

[0] http://git.linuxfoundation.org/?p=diamon/minicoredumper.git;a=commitdiff;h=61d40a83ff3e47ef1c5a3acbbabc9564dcfa6341