[PATCH V2 2/2] riscv: Add modules to virtual kernel memory layout dump

Xianting Tian xianting.tian at linux.alibaba.com
Thu Jul 14 04:06:03 PDT 2022


在 2022/7/14 下午5:46, Heiko Stübner 写道:
> Am Donnerstag, 14. Juli 2022, 11:17:26 CEST schrieb Xianting Tian:
>> 在 2022/7/14 下午4:24, Arnd Bergmann 写道:
>>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 4:59 AM Xianting Tian
>>> <xianting.tian at linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>>>> As MODULES is only defined for CONFIG_64BIT, so we dump it when
>>>> CONFIG_64BIT.
>>> Doesn't this cause a compile-time error on 32-bit?
>> I tested, rv32 compile is OK.
>>>>                   (unsigned long)VMEMMAP_END);
>>>>           print_ml("vmalloc", (unsigned long)VMALLOC_START,
>>>>                   (unsigned long)VMALLOC_END);
>>>> +       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_64BIT))
>>>> +               print_ml("modules", (unsigned long)MODULES_VADDR,
>>>> +                       (unsigned long)MODULES_END);
>>> The IS_ENABLED() check prevents the line from getting executed, but
>>> unlike an #ifdef it still relies on it to be parsable.
>> Thanks, I will use #ifdef instead of IS_ENABLED
> Patch1 also has that issue with the
thanks, I will modify it in V3.
>
>        if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_64BIT)) {
>                vmcoreinfo_append_str("NUMBER(MODULES_VADDR)=0x%lx\n", MODULES_VADDR);
>                vmcoreinfo_append_str("NUMBER(MODULES_END)=0x%lx\n", MODULES_END);
>        ....
>
>
> module_alloc falls back to a weak variant [0] which is the same as the riscv variant
> only then using VMALLOC_START - VMALLOC_END as range, as the riscv-variant
> conditional to CONFIG_64BIT.

yes, I ever checked, actually before 5.13, it doesn't define MODULES 
area but use VMALLOC for modules,

crash> mod
      MODULE       NAME           BASE           SIZE  OBJECT FILE
ffffffdf8167f280  galcore  ffffffdf81646000  3075841  (not loaded)  
[CONFIG_KALLSYMS]

[    0.000000]      vmalloc : 0xffffffd000000000 - 0xffffffdfffffffff   
(65535 MB)

>
> I'm wondering if it wouldn't be easier in the long run to just define
> MODULES_VADDR, MODULES_END for 32bit to use these values and get rid of
> the CONFIG_64BIT ifdef we already have for MODULES (and new ones we are
> introducing now).
>
>
> Heiko
>
>
> [0] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/kernel/module.c#L2835
>
>



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