[PATCH] kdump: force page alignment for per-CPU crash notes.

[Vivek Goyal]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 09:04:32AM -0800, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:21:23AM -0800, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
> >> Per-CPU allocations are not guaranteed to be physically contiguous.
> >> However, kdump kernel and user-space code assumes that per-CPU
> >> memory, used for saving CPU registers on crash, is.
> >> This can cause corrupted /proc/vmcore in some cases - the main
> >> symptom being huge ELF note section.
> >>
> >> Force page alignment for note_buf_t to ensure that this assumption holds.
> >>
> >
> > Hi Eugene,
> >
> > Where do we make assumption that crash_notes address is page aligned?
> 
> I never said that. I said that assumption was that note chunks were
> physically contiguous.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Are you referring to the fact that note could be stored on two different
> > physical pages and then kexec-tools does not know about the physical
> > address of second page, hence second kernel does not know about it
> > and we never read that data. That sounds like a problem.
> 
> Yes. This is exactly what happens in some cases.

Ok. Thanks for clarifying. Patch looks good to me.

Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>

Vivek