Re: [PATCH v3 07/60] arm64: ptdump: Discover start of vmemmap region at runtime

Ryan Roberts
2023-03-07T16:39:26Z

On 07/03/2023 14:04, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> We will soon reclaim the part of the vmemmap region that covers VA space
> that is not addressable by the hardware. To avoid confusion, ensure that
> the 'vmemmap start' marker points at the start of the region that is
> actually being used for the struct page array, rather than the start of
> the region we set aside for it at build time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c b/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c
> index 910b35f02280cbdb..8f37d6d8b5216473 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c
> @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ enum address_markers_idx {
> MODULES_END_NR,
> VMALLOC_START_NR,
> VMALLOC_END_NR,
> + VMEMMAP_START_NR,
> };
>
> static struct addr_marker address_markers[] = {
> @@ -386,6 +387,10 @@ static int __init ptdump_init(void)
> #endif
> address_markers[VMALLOC_END_NR].start_address = VMALLOC_END;
> ptdump_initialize();
> + if (vabits_actual < VA_BITS) {
> + address_markers[VMEMMAP_START_NR].start_address =
> + (unsigned long)virt_to_page(_PAGE_OFFSET(vabits_actual));
> + }

nit: Do you need the conditional here? Why not just do it unconditionally?

> ptdump_debugfs_register(&kernel_ptdump_info, "kernel_page_tables");
> return 0;
> }