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authorBaoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>2016-12-14 15:04:20 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-12-14 16:04:07 -0800
commit401721ecd1dcb0a428aa5d6832ee05ffbdbffbbe (patch)
treed284ae75d3763fff031f1919e7f5a65c72cae946 /kernel/kexec_core.c
parent69f58384791ac6da4165ce8e6defd6f408f4afdf (diff)
downloadlinux-401721ecd1dcb0a428aa5d6832ee05ffbdbffbbe.tar.bz2
kexec: export the value of phys_base instead of symbol address
Currently in x86_64, the symbol address of phys_base is exported to vmcoreinfo. Dave Anderson complained this is really useless for his Crash implementation. Because in user-space utility Crash and Makedumpfile which exported vmcore information is mainly used for, value of phys_base is needed to covert virtual address of exported kernel symbol to physical address. Especially init_level4_pgt, if we want to access and go over the page table to look up a PA corresponding to VA, firstly we need calculate page_dir = SYMBOL(init_level4_pgt) - __START_KERNEL_map + phys_base; Now in Crash and Makedumpfile, we have to analyze the vmcore elf program header to get value of phys_base. As Dave said, it would be preferable if it were readily availabl in vmcoreinfo rather than depending upon the PT_LOAD semantics. Hence in this patch change to export the value of phys_base instead of its virtual address. And people also complained that KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE exporting is x86_64 only, should be moved into arch dependent function arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo. Do the moving in this patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478568596-30060-2-git-send-email-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com> Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Eugene Surovegin <surovegin@google.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <ats-kumagai@wm.jp.nec.com> Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com> Cc: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kexec_core.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kexec_core.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
index 561675589511..8ad3a29eb728 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
@@ -1467,9 +1467,6 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init(void)
#endif
VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(PG_head_mask);
VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE);
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86
- VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE);
-#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(HUGETLB_PAGE_DTOR);
#endif