[PATCH v2 4/6] arm64: mm: dump: make page table dumping reusable
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Apr 25 04:07:57 PDT 2016
Hi Ard, Mark,
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 06:48:06PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
>
> For debugging purposes, it would be nice if we could export page tables
> other than the swapper_pg_dir to userspace. To enable this, this patch
> refactors the arm64 page table dumping code such that multiple tables
> may be registered with the framework, and exported under debugfs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/ptdump.h | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/mm/dump.c | 32 ++++++++------
> 2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
Could you reorder this with patch 3, please? I'm unsure about the benefit
of the very specific string literal changes, but the ptdump stuff here
certainly looks beneficial.
I can queue the first two patches as-is.
Thanks.
Will
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