[PATCH 2/2] makedumpfile: Clean up unused KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE

[Baoquan He]

On 11/10/16 at 01:15am, Atsushi Kumagai wrote:
> Hello Baoquan,
> 
> >> > The old MODULES_VADDR need be decided by KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE when kaslr
> >> > enabled. Now MODULES_VADDR is not needed any more since Pratyush makes
> >> > all VA to PA converting done by page table lookup. So remove its related
> >> > code.
> >>
> >> Hi Bao,
> >>
> >> I'm not clear on this.  The crash utility still reads/needs KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE
> >> from the dumpfile's vmcoreinfo data.  Is it being written to the vmcoreinfo
> >> section somewhere else in the code?
> >
> >Aha, seems makedumpfile will get the vmcoreinfo offset and size, then
> >write the whole vmcoreinfo block into dumped vmcore header. But if
> >specify '-g' for makedumpfile to only generate a vmcoreinfo file, it
> >won't contain KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE.
> >
> >makedumpfile -g vmcoreinfo -x vmlinux
> >
> >So I am not sure if you care about vmcoreinfo file, but you are right, I
> >should not remove the vmcoreinfo reading and writing data.
> >
> >Thanks for pointing it out, will send v2 post.
> 
> I understand the vmcoreinfo file generated by '-g' is used only for
> makedumpfile, so it's OK if it doesn't contain KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE since
> crash doesn't refer to the file.
> This patch doesn't modify the original vmcoreinfo section in dumpfile,
> it sounds reasonable to me.

Thanks for your comments, Atsushi! Then I am fine.

Thanks
Baoquan