[Patch v3 4/7] set vmcoreinfo for kcore
Baoquan He
bhe at redhat.com
Mon Jul 28 01:20:03 PDT 2014
In vmcore dumping, note program of vmcoreinfo is set in elf header
of /proc/vmcore. In 1st kernel, the vmcoreinfo is also needed for
kcore analyzing. So in this patch information of vmcoreinfo is
parsed and set in offset_vmcoreinfo and size_vmcoreinfo.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
---
elf_info.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
elf_info.h | 1 +
makedumpfile.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 77 insertions(+)
diff --git a/elf_info.c b/elf_info.c
index 69d3fdb..edbfc97 100644
--- a/elf_info.c
+++ b/elf_info.c
@@ -395,6 +395,53 @@ get_pt_note_info(void)
return TRUE;
}
+#define UNINITIALIZED ((ulong)(-1))
+int set_kcore_vmcoreinfo(uint64_t vmcoreinfo_addr, uint64_t vmcoreinfo_len)
+{
+ int i;
+ ulong kvaddr;
+ off_t offset;
+ char note[MAX_SIZE_NHDR];
+ int size_desc;
+ off_t offset_desc;
+
+ offset = UNINITIALIZED;
+ kvaddr = (ulong)vmcoreinfo_addr | PAGE_OFFSET;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < num_pt_loads; ++i) {
+ struct pt_load_segment *p = &pt_loads[i];
+ if ((kvaddr >= p->virt_start) && (kvaddr < p->virt_end)) {
+ offset = (off_t)(kvaddr - p->virt_start) +
+ (off_t)p->file_offset;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (offset == UNINITIALIZED){
+ ERRMSG("Can't seek the dump memory(%s). %s\n",
+ name_memory, strerror(errno));
+ return FALSE;
+ }
+
+ if (lseek(fd_memory, offset, SEEK_SET) != offset){
+ ERRMSG("Can't seek the dump memory(%s). %s\n",
+ name_memory, strerror(errno));
+ return FALSE;
+ }
+
+ if (read(fd_memory, note, MAX_SIZE_NHDR) != MAX_SIZE_NHDR){
+ ERRMSG("Can't read the dump memory(%s). %s\n",
+ name_memory, strerror(errno));
+ return FALSE;
+ }
+
+ size_desc = note_descsz(note);
+ offset_desc = offset + offset_note_desc(note);
+
+ set_vmcoreinfo(offset_desc, size_desc);
+
+ return TRUE;
+}
/*
* External functions.
diff --git a/elf_info.h b/elf_info.h
index 263d993..3ce0138 100644
--- a/elf_info.h
+++ b/elf_info.h
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ int get_elf32_ehdr(int fd, char *filename, Elf32_Ehdr *ehdr);
int get_elf_info(int fd, char *filename);
void free_elf_info(void);
int get_elf_loads(int fd, char *filename);
+int set_kcore_vmcoreinfo(uint64_t vmcoreinfo_addr, uint64_t vmcoreinfo_len);
int is_elf64_memory(void);
int is_xen_memory(void);
diff --git a/makedumpfile.c b/makedumpfile.c
index 78aa7a5..84857e0 100644
--- a/makedumpfile.c
+++ b/makedumpfile.c
@@ -9085,6 +9085,35 @@ static int get_page_offset()
return TRUE;
}
+
+/* Returns the physical address of start of crash notes buffer for a kernel. */
+static int get_sys_kernel_vmcoreinfo(uint64_t *addr, uint64_t *len)
+{
+ char line[BUFSIZE_FGETS];
+ int count;
+ FILE *fp;
+ unsigned long long temp, temp2;
+
+ *addr = 0;
+ *len = 0;
+
+ if (!(fp = fopen("/sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo", "r")))
+ return -1;
+
+ if (!fgets(line, sizeof(line), fp))
+ ERRMSG("Cannot parse %s: %s\n", "/sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo", strerror(errno));
+ count = sscanf(line, "%Lx %Lx", &temp, &temp2);
+ if (count != 2)
+ ERRMSG("Cannot parse %s: %s\n", "/sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo", strerror(errno));
+
+ *addr = (uint64_t) temp;
+ *len = (uint64_t) temp2;
+
+ fclose(fp);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+
static struct option longopts[] = {
{"split", no_argument, NULL, OPT_SPLIT},
{"reassemble", no_argument, NULL, OPT_REASSEMBLE},
--
1.8.5.3
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