From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com ([207.211.31.120] helo=us-smtp-1.mimecast.com) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1iU4g7-0003bS-9d for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:04:07 +0000 Received: by mail-pl1-f199.google.com with SMTP id x9so10126242plv.2 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 00:01:36 -0800 (PST) From: Bhupesh Sharma Subject: [PATCH v4 0/3] Append new variables to vmcoreinfo (TCR_EL1.T1SZ for arm64 and MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS for all archs) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:31:19 +0530 Message-Id: <1573459282-26989-1-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: Mark Rutland , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , bhsharma@redhat.com, Paul Mackerras , Will Deacon , Ingo Molnar , Jonathan Corbet , Michael Ellerman , x86@kernel.org, Catalin Marinas , Boris Petkov , Thomas Gleixner , bhupesh.linux@gmail.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Kazuhito Hagio , Ard Biesheuvel , Steve Capper , kexec@lists.infradead.org, James Morse , Dave Anderson , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Changes since v3: ---------------- - v3 can be seen here: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2019-March/022590.html - Addressed comments from James and exported TCR_EL1.T1SZ in vmcoreinfo instead of PTRS_PER_PGD. - Added a new patch (via [PATCH 3/3]), which fixes a simple typo in 'Documentation/arm64/memory.rst' Changes since v2: ---------------- - v2 can be seen here: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2019-March/022531.html - Protected 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' vmcoreinfo variable under CONFIG_SPARSEMEM ifdef sections, as suggested by Kazu. - Updated vmcoreinfo documentation to add description about 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' variable (via [PATCH 3/3]). Changes since v1: ---------------- - v1 was sent out as a single patch which can be seen here: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2019-February/022411.html - v2 breaks the single patch into two independent patches: [PATCH 1/2] appends 'PTRS_PER_PGD' to vmcoreinfo for arm64 arch, whereas [PATCH 2/2] appends 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' to vmcoreinfo in core kernel code (all archs) This patchset primarily fixes the regression reported in user-space utilities like 'makedumpfile' and 'crash-utility' on arm64 architecture with the availability of 52-bit address space feature in underlying kernel. These regressions have been reported both on CPUs which don't support ARMv8.2 extensions (i.e. LVA, LPA) and are running newer kernels and also on prototype platforms (like ARMv8 FVP simulator model) which support ARMv8.2 extensions and are running newer kernels. The reason for these regressions is that right now user-space tools have no direct access to these values (since these are not exported from the kernel) and hence need to rely on a best-guess method of determining value of 'vabits_actual' and 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' supported by underlying kernel. Exporting these values via vmcoreinfo will help user-land in such cases. In addition, 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 arm64 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. Cc: Boris Petkov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: James Morse Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Steve Capper Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Ard Biesheuvel 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: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org Bhupesh Sharma (3): crash_core, vmcoreinfo: Append 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' to vmcoreinfo arm64/crash_core: Export TCR_EL1.T1SZ in vmcoreinfo Documentation/arm64: Fix a simple typo in memory.rst Documentation/arm64/memory.rst | 2 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/crash_core.c | 9 +++++++++ kernel/crash_core.c | 1 + 4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec