[PATCH Makedumpfile 00/10] arm64 cleanup and kaslr support
Atsushi Kumagai
ats-kumagai at wm.jp.nec.com
Tue Nov 1 02:11:32 PDT 2016
Hello Pratyush,
>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(-)
Thanks always for your work for arm64, I've reviewed this patch set.
I'll merge them into v1.6.1.
Regards,
Atsushi Kumagai
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