From: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
To: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>,
Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [BUG REPORT] kexec and makedumpfile can't detect PAGE_OFFSET on arm (Wang Nan)
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 08:51:04 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <768772288.14234200.1400590264454.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <537AD0FC.1020202@huawei.com>
----- Original Message -----
>
> On 2014/5/20 3:41, Dave Anderson wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >>
> >> Hi Atsushi and Simon,
> >>
> >> I find a problem about VMSPLIT on arm plarform, related to kexec and
> >> makedumpfile.
> >>
> >> When CONFIG_VMSPLIT_1G/2G is selected by kernel, PAGE_OFFSET is actually
> >> 0x40000000 or 0x80000000. However, kexec hard codes PAGE_OFFSET to
> >> 0xc0000000 (in kexec/arch/arm/crashdump-arm.h), which is incorrect in
> >> these situations. For example, on realview-pbx board with 1G/3G VMSPLIT,
> >> PHDRs in generated /proc/vmcore is as follow:
> >>
> >> Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flg Align
> >> NOTE 0x001000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00690 0x00690 0
> >> LOAD 0x002000 0xc0000000 0x00000000 0x10000000 0x10000000 RWE
> >> 0
> >> LOAD 0x10002000 0xe0000000 0x20000000 0x8000000 0x8000000 RWE
> >> 0
> >> LOAD 0x18002000 0xf0000000 0x30000000 0x10000000 0x10000000
> >> RWE 0
> >> LOAD 0x28002000 0x40000000 0x80000000 0x10000000 0x10000000
> >> RWE 0
> >>
> >> Which should be:
> >>
> >> Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flg Align
> >> ...
> >> LOAD ... 0x40000000 0x00000000 0x10000000 0x10000000 RWE
> >> 0
> >> LOAD ... 0x60000000 0x20000000 0x8000000 0x8000000 RWE 0
> >> LOAD ... 0x70000000 0x30000000 0x10000000 0x10000000 RWE
> >> 0
> >> LOAD ... 0xc0000000 0x80000000 0x10000000 0x10000000 RWE
> >> 0
> >>
> >> I don't know why crash utility can deal with it without problem,
> >
> > For ARM the crash utility masks the symbol value of "_stext" with 0x1fffffff
> > to determine the PAGE_OFFSET value, which was basically copied from the way
> > it was done for i386.
> >
>
> kexec-tools can do the same thing by reading /proc/kallsyms (crashdump-x86.c has already done this).
> However, KALLSYMS and KALLSYMS_ALL are turned off on some embedded systems with memory limitation,
> which is common on ARM.
But you could use VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(_stext), right?
Dave
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2014-05-19 19:41 ` [BUG REPORT] kexec and makedumpfile can't detect PAGE_OFFSET on arm (Wang Nan) Dave Anderson
2014-05-20 3:50 ` Wang Nan
2014-05-20 12:51 ` Dave Anderson [this message]
2014-05-22 1:10 ` Wang Nan
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