[PATCH v2 0/7] (kexec-tools) arm64: add kdump support

[Pratyush Anand]

On 22/08/2016:05:10:17 PM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 03:44:23PM +0530, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> > page_offset is the virtual address of phys_offset, right?
> > 
> > ehdr.e_entry is the virtual address of "kernel Code Start PA", right?
> > 
> > If yes, then why should n't above be correct for all linear regions.
> 
> What I was thinking of is that we'd better fake arm64_mem.text_offset
> instead of calculating a page_offset because text_offset is also used
> in arm64_load_other_segments(). Here, if the first segment doesn't not
> contain kernel text, image_base will be incorrect.

IMHO, we should keep all definitions in kexec-tools as close as possible to that
of corresponding definitions in kernel. This will help us to avoid any confusion
in future.

~Pratyush