From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-pg1-f194.google.com ([209.85.215.194]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.90_1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1h2vKJ-0007Un-5g for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Sun, 10 Mar 2019 10:05:12 +0000 Received: by mail-pg1-f194.google.com with SMTP id m2so1711133pgl.5 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2019 03:05:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Bhupesh Sharma Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] crash_core, vmcoreinfo: Append 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' to vmcoreinfo Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 15:34:02 +0530 Message-Id: <1552212242-9479-3-git-send-email-bhsharma@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1552212242-9479-1-git-send-email-bhsharma@redhat.com> References: <1552212242-9479-1-git-send-email-bhsharma@redhat.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Kazuhito Hagio , Michael Ellerman , bhsharma@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org, Will Deacon , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, James Morse , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Boris Petkov , Thomas Gleixner , bhupesh.linux@gmail.com, Dave Anderson , Ingo Molnar , Paul Mackerras Right now user-space tools like 'makedumpfile' and 'crash' need to rely on a best-guess method of determining value of 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' supported by underlying kernel. This value is used in user-space code to calculate the bit-space required to store a section for SPARESMEM (similar to the existing calculation method used in the kernel implementation): #define SECTIONS_SHIFT (MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS - SECTION_SIZE_BITS) Now, regressions have been reported in user-space utilities like 'makedumpfile' and 'crash' on arm64, with the recently added kernel support for 52-bit physical address space, as there is no clear method of determining this value in user-space (other than reading kernel CONFIG flags). As per suggestion from makedumpfile maintainer (Kazu), it makes more sense to append 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' to vmcoreinfo in the core code itself rather than in arch-specific code, so that the user-space code for other archs can also benefit from this addition to the vmcoreinfo and use it as a standard way of determining 'SECTIONS_SHIFT' value in user-land. A reference 'makedumpfile' implementation which reads the 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' value from vmcoreinfo in a arch-independent fashion is available here: [0]. https://github.com/bhupesh-sharma/makedumpfile/blob/remove-max-phys-mem-bit-v1/arch/ppc64.c#L471 Cc: Boris Petkov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: James Morse Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Dave Anderson Cc: Kazuhito Hagio Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma --- kernel/crash_core.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c index 093c9f917ed0..44b90368e183 100644 --- a/kernel/crash_core.c +++ b/kernel/crash_core.c @@ -467,6 +467,7 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init(void) #define PAGE_OFFLINE_MAPCOUNT_VALUE (~PG_offline) VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(PAGE_OFFLINE_MAPCOUNT_VALUE); #endif + VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS); arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(); update_vmcoreinfo_note(); -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec