[PATCH] kdump, x86: report actual value of phys_base in VMCOREINFO

[Petr Tesarik]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 09:17:09 +0900 (JST)
HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdump, x86: report actual value of phys_base in VMCOREINFO
> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:12:05 -0500
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 03:40:42PM +0900, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote:
> >> Currently, VMCOREINFO note information reports the virtual address of
> >> phys_base that is assigned to symbol phys_base. But this doesn't make
> >> sense because to refer to value of the phys_base, it's necessary to
> >> get the value of phys_base itself we are now about to refer to.
> >> 
> > 
> > Hi Hatayama,
> > 
> > /proc/vmcore ELF headers have virtual address information and using
> > that you should be able to read actual value of phys_base. gdb deals
> > with virtual addresses all the time and can read value of any symbol
> > using those headers.
> > 
> > So I am not sure what's the need for exporting actual value of
> > phys_base.
> > 
> 
> Sorry, my logic in the patch description was wrong. For /proc/vmcore,
> there's enough information for makedumpdile to get phys_base. It's
> correct. The problem here is that other crash dump mechanisms that run
> outside Linux kernel independently don't have information to get
> phys_base.

Yes, but these mechanisms won't be able to read VMCOREINFO either, will
they?

Petr T