[PATCH v2 4/6] arm64: mm: dump: make page table dumping reusable
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Tue May 31 06:25:08 PDT 2016
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 01:56:07PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:07:57PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > 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'm sure this is far too late, but for posterity I've rebased patch 4
> below atop of pathes 1 & 2 as queued in the arm64 for-next/core branch,
> without patch 3. It builds cleanly, and I've given it a spin on
> Juno.
>
> Will, I guess I should rebase and resend this after we hit v4.7-rc1?
Yes, please.
Will
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