[PATCH v19 10/13] arm64: kdump: add VMCOREINFO's for user-space coredump tools
Pratyush Anand
panand at redhat.com
Thu Jun 23 00:14:12 PDT 2016
Hi Takahiro,
Thanks for your reply.
On 22/06/2016:02:59:41 PM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 11:02:22AM +0530, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> > +Atsushi
> >
> > Hi Takahiro,
> >
> > On 16/06/2016:11:48:28 PM, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > > From: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
> > >
> > > For the current crash utility, we need to know, at least,
> > > - kimage_voffset
> > > - PHYS_OFFSET
> > > to handle the contents of core dump file (/proc/vmcore) correctly due to
> > > the introduction of KASLR (CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) in v4.6.
> > > This patch puts them as VMCOREINFO's into the file.
> > >
> > > - VA_BITS
> > > is also added for makedumpfile command.
> >
> > Thanks for adding them. They are quite helpful for makedumpfile as well.
> >
> > > More VMCOREINFO's may be added later.
> >
> > Yes, we will need to pass VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(_text) and VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(_end)
> > in order to work with makedumpfile.
>
> I know that adding those symbols is the easiest way, but
> theoretically, if we know the physical address of "swapper_pg_dir",
But, we know only it's virtual address.
> instead of its virtual address, we can access all the memory pointed to
> by any kernel virtual address.
> How do you rationalize that we need to know "_text" and "_end"?
Well, we need some mechanism so that we can decide if an address can be
translated using linear mapping of virt_to_phys().
Alternatively, probably we can do like this:
-- Translate all address between "SYMBOL(swapper_pg_dir)" and "SYMBOL(swapper_pg_dir)
+ SWAPPER_DIR_SIZE" using virt_to_phys() and now we can read values from
dumpfile using that physical address. This way we can get PGD/PMD/PUD values.
-- PTE values may lie out side this range, however that address should still be
linearly translatable. We can use virt_to_phys() macro from them as well.
In summary, we can translate address of PGD/PMD/PUD/PTE using virt_to_phys()
and rest all can be translated using page table entries.
~Pratyush
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