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From: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: k-hagio-ab@nec.com, lijiang@redhat.com,
	Kuan-Ying Lee <kuan-ying.lee@canonical.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>, Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, ardb@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64/vmcore: Add pgtable_l5_enabled information in vmcoreinfo
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 06:48:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zs5Xo5eVUvGMbtSv@MiWiFi-R3L-srv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240827122459.GA4679@willie-the-truck>

On 08/27/24 at 01:24pm, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 02:52:02PM +0800, Kuan-Ying Lee wrote:
> > Since arm64 supports 5-level page tables, we need to add this
> > information to vmcoreinfo to make debug tools know if 5-level
> > page table is enabled or not.
> > 
> > Missing this information will break the debug tool like crash [1].
> > 
> > [1] https://github.com/crash-utility/crash
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kuan-Ying Lee <kuan-ying.lee@canonical.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst | 6 ++++++
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/vmcore_info.c                | 3 +++
> >  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> In which case, wouldn't you also want to know about pgtable_l4_enabled()?

That is a good question. I guess it's deduced in code, mostly needed for
different PAGE_OFFSET, how to transfer virtual addr to physical addr,
etc.

Add Crash utility experts here.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-27 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-26  6:52 [PATCH] arm64/vmcore: Add pgtable_l5_enabled information in vmcoreinfo Kuan-Ying Lee
2024-08-27 12:24 ` Will Deacon
2024-08-27 22:48   ` Baoquan He [this message]
     [not found]     ` <CANU+ZydbFPiSnCRr3qQ52GjUQQmU3ZO62c6hRkoLM147+u5u8w@mail.gmail.com>
2024-08-30  6:41       ` Kuan-Ying Lee

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