[PATCH v2 4/4] arm64: Add support for binary image files

[panand@redhat.com (Pratyush Anand)]

Hi Geoff,

On 28/07/2016:11:04:43 AM, Geoff Levand wrote:
> Hi Pratyush,
> 
> On Thu, 2016-07-28 at 09:31 +0530, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> > On 26/07/2016:08:18:57 PM, Geoff Levand wrote:
> 
> > You removed page_offset calculation in rework.
> > I am unable to understand that how arm64_mem.page_offset will be filled up now
> > for binary image case.
> > 
> > I think, we still need to keep page_offset user input. 
> 
> The current kernel linker scripts are setup to output virtual
> address values to the vmlinux elf file.  
> 
> To load the elf sections of vmlinux using the provided elf
> file loader, elf_exec_load(), we need to convert those elf
> header values to physical addresses since we work with
> physical addresses in the kernel's kimage structure.
> 
> That conversion is 
> 
>   p = v - page_offset + phys_offset;
> 
> We get phys_offset from the memory ranges, and we calculate
> page_offset from the elf header info.
> 
> As for the binary image file, we load that with
> add_segment_phys_virt(), which can put the binary data of the
> Image file into memory at a physical address we specify:
> 
>   image_base = phys_offset + text_offset.
> 
> phys_offset is again from the memory ranges, and text_offset
> from the arm64 image header.
> 
> 
> > You may take following
> > two patches which does this, or you may leave binary image support patch which I
> > will send after your patches are merged.
> > 
> > https://github.com/pratyushanand/kexec-tools/commit/5b7e49a75d1d6cd4ac846f50ff10275fd54cb545
> 
> This one may be useful, for debugging if anything.
> 
> > https://github.com/pratyushanand/kexec-tools/commit/a0ce0ce673755c4061c1f081170a3a75dfa1d1fb
> 
> We do not need, nor want, a PAGE_OFFSET option.

See kexec/crashdump-elf.c:FUNC()
We have:
223                 phdr->p_vaddr = phys_to_virt(elf_info, mstart);

Now, if we do not have page_offset then we will not have correct p_vaddr, and
then vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c:vaddr_to_offset() fails with

No program header covering vaddr 0xfffffc0008c312f0found kexec bug?

~Pratyush