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

Pratyush Anand panand at redhat.com
Mon Nov 14 22:34:14 PST 2016


Hi Atsushi,

There would be a conflict because of following patch while applying
these patches. Other than that I also see a an issue with --config
option. So I will fix that as well and repost the series soon.

0068010b9b83 [PATCH v2 2/2] Clean up unused KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE

~Pratyush

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Atsushi Kumagai
<ats-kumagai at wm.jp.nec.com> wrote:
> 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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