[PATCH v2] kdump, vmcoreinfo: report actual value of phys_base

[Vivek Goyal]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 03:11:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
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> (cc trimmed a bit)
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> On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:30:11 +0900 (JST) HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
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> > 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 phys_base, it's necessary to get the value
> > of phys_base itself we are now about to refer to.
> 
> Folks, could we please get a bit of reviewing, acking or nacking for
> this one?

To me this patch is more like a hack or a quick fix to get dump filtering
working when dump is generated using virsh-dump like tools. I feel there
should be discussion on what's the proper way to do this. I don't have
very specific ideas though at this point of time.

Thanks
Vivek