[PATCH Makedumpfile 00/10] arm64 cleanup and kaslr support

Goel, Sameer sgoel at codeaurora.org
Wed Dec 7 16:18:27 PST 2016


Works great for 4l 4k pages.

Tested-by: Sameer Goel <sgoel at codeaurora.org>

On 10/25/2016 1:22 AM, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> These patches were lying in my tree for quite some time now. VMCOREINFO
> numbers/symbols used in these patches have been made part of kdump kernel
> patches for last few versions including v26. So, there seems no contention
> on embedding VA_BITS, kimage_voffset and PHYS_OFFSET into vmcore.
>
> These patches cleans up a lot arm64 code and also immunize it with many
> kernel changes. Additionally,it adds 4 level 4K page support and support for
> KASLR enabled kernel.
>
> Azriel Samson (1):
>   arm64: Add support for 4level 4K page translations table
>
> Pratyush Anand (9):
>   arm64: cleanup code, comment, blank space, blank lines etc
>   read_vmcoreinfo_long: Allow to read hex values as well
>   Introduce read_vmcoreinfo_ulong()
>   arm64: use already available PAGESIZE() and PAGESHIFT() macros
>   arm64: fix page_offset definition
>   arm64: fix re-filtering
>   arm64: use value of VA_BITS and PHYS_OFFSET embedded into vmcore
>   arm64: immunize identity mapped address finding w.r.t. kernel changes
>   arm64: fix memory layout as per changes in v4.6 kernel
>
>  arch/arm64.c   | 245 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------------
>  makedumpfile.c |  46 +++++++++++
>  makedumpfile.h |  28 +++++--
>  3 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 157 deletions(-)
>

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