[PATCH] makedumpfile: Support ARM64
Pratyush Anand
pratyush.anand at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 09:52:53 PDT 2015
HI Sameer,
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 4:02 AM, <sgoel at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> Hi Pratush,
> I added the mappings for PMD translations to the vtop function. This
> helped in translating the address to physical. Issues seen:
> 1. If PMD translates to a section. The physical translations does not get
> rid of the PMD flags. So, the physical address shows up as invalid and
> code crashes when it tries to read this address from ELF.
> 2. After treating this as a PTE table address, we see a compression of
> around 50%.
>
Is it possible for you to share the modification you would have done
on top of https://github.com/pratyushanand/makedumpfile.git:arm64_support.
Actually, I have lost track of all the modifications you have done on
top of my changes.
I would like to review it closely this weekend and will suggest you
whatever I find.
~Pratyush
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