[PATCH v3] ptdump: add intermediate directory support

Maxwell Bland mbland at motorola.com
Tue Jun 18 07:54:04 PDT 2024


On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 12:54:34PM GMT, Jesse Taube wrote:
> On 4/30/24 12:05, Maxwell Bland wrote:
> > Add an optional note_non_leaf parameter to ptdump, causing note_page to
> > be called on non-leaf descriptors. Implement this functionality on arm64
> > by printing table descriptors along with table-specific permission sets.

Hi Jesse, sorry for the delay on this, I have been putting out fires
at motorola, and have just gotten time to sit down and rework these
patches. I have submitted a new set here:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/aw675dhrbplkitj3szjut2vyidsxokogkjj3vi76wl2x4wybtg@5rhk5ca5zpmv/

And thank you for your comments. This new version should address them.

> When you reply the email client(and git send-email???) seems to send it
> twice?

Was missing set record = /dev/null in my .muttrc, apologies!

> Typicaly docs are seperated into a seperate commit and sent as a set.

Done!

> As said by Catalin anything that can be seperated into smaller patches
> should be.

Done!

> > + | 0xffff800000000000-0xffff800080000000   2G PUD F BLK     RW               x               MEM/NORMAL            |
> It's probably good to add another space between F and BLK to show that F is
> related to the type? Also maybe add docs as to what it means, but I may just
> be dumb and its obvious to others.

Yes, the "F" for "this entry is invalid" is unintuitive. I decided to
rework this section of the docs altogether and just provide an exact
list of attributes for version 4.

> > +	static const char units[] = "BKMGTPE";
> This doesnt seem to be related to your changes is it?

Yes, I was a bit confused at this time, thinking the range specifications 
for tables should be the size of the table, rather than the size of the
region governed by the table. This is corrected in version 4 and the 
byte-sized specifier is no longer necessary.

Regards,
Maxwell Bland



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