[PATCH V5 0/6] RISC-V fixups to work with crash tool
Conor.Dooley at microchip.com
Conor.Dooley at microchip.com
Tue Aug 9 14:24:16 PDT 2022
On 09/08/2022 07:58, Xianting Tian wrote:
> Hi Palmer
>
> Could you please help review this patch set? thanks.
Hey Xianting,
Obviously I am not Palmer, but I left some comments on the
patchset. Sorry for the delay in getting back onto you on your
latest version, I got confused as to which versions I had reviewed.
Conor.
>
> Crash-utility patch set is ready(acked by HAGIO KAZUHITO), now waiting the kernel patch set merged firstly.
>
> 在 2022/8/2 下午8:18, Xianting Tian 写道:
>> I ever sent the patch 1 in the link:
>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-riscv/patch/20220708073150.352830-3-xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com/
>> And patch 2,3 in the link:
>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-riscv/patch/20220714113300.367854-2-xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com/
>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-riscv/patch/20220714113300.367854-3-xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com/
>>
>> This patch set just put these patches together, and with three new patch 4, 5, 6.
>> these six patches are the fixups for machine_kexec, kernel mode PC for vmcore
>> and improvements for vmcoreinfo, memory layout dump and fixup chedule out issue
>> in machine_crash_shutdown().
>>
>> The main changes in the six patchs as below,
>> Patch 1: use __smp_processor_id() instead of smp_processor_id() to cleanup
>> the console prints.
>> Patch 2: Add VM layout, va bits, ram base to vmcoreinfo, which can simplify
>> the development of crash tool as ARM64 already did
>> (arch/arm64/kernel/crash_core.c).
>> Patch 3: Add modules to virtual kernel memory layout dump.
>> Patch 4: Fixup to get correct kernel mode PC for vmcore.
>> Patch 5: Updates vmcoreinfo.rst.
>> Patch 6: Fixup schedule out issue in machine_crash_shutdown()
>>
>> With these six patches(patch 2 is must), crash tool can work well to analyze
>> a vmcore. The patches for crash tool for RISCV64 is in the link:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20220801043040.2003264-1-xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com/
>>
>> ------
>> Changes v1 -> v2:
>> 1, remove the patch "Add a fast call path of crash_kexec()" from this series
>> of patches, as it already applied to riscv git.
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=3f1901110a89b0e2e13adb2ac8d1a7102879ea98
>> 2, add 'Reviewed-by' based on the comments of v1.
>> Changes v2 -> v3:
>> use "riscv" instead of "riscv64" in patch 5 subject line.
>> Changes v3 -> v4:
>> use "riscv" instead of "riscv64" in the summary of patch 5 subject line.
>> Changes v4 -> v5:
>> add a new patch "RISC-V: Fixup schedule out issue in machine_crash_shutdown()"
>>
>> Xianting Tian (6):
>> RISC-V: use __smp_processor_id() instead of smp_processor_id()
>> RISC-V: Add arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo support
>> riscv: Add modules to virtual kernel memory layout dump
>> RISC-V: Fixup getting correct current pc
>> riscv: crash_core: Export kernel vm layout, phys_ram_base
>> RISC-V: Fixup schedule out issue in machine_crash_shutdown()
>>
>> .../admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst | 31 +++++++++++++++++++
>> arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile | 1 +
>> arch/riscv/kernel/crash_core.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++
>> arch/riscv/kernel/crash_save_regs.S | 2 +-
>> arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 28 ++++++++++++++---
>> arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 4 +++
>> 6 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/crash_core.c
>>
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