[PATCH] arm64/vmcore: Add pgtable_l5_enabled information in vmcoreinfo

Kuan-Ying Lee
2024-08-26T06:52:45Z

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(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst
index 0f714fc945ac..557a1cbe5098 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst
@@ -466,6 +466,12 @@ Used to get the correct ranges:
VMALLOC_START ~ VMALLOC_END-1 : vmalloc() / ioremap() space.
VMEMMAP_START ~ VMEMMAP_END-1 : vmemmap region, used for struct page array.

+pgtable_l5_enabled
+------------------
+
+User-space tools need to know whether the crash kernel was in 5-level
+paging mode.
+
arm
===

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmcore_info.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmcore_info.c
index b19d5d6cb8b3..be65d664bdb7 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmcore_info.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmcore_info.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
#include <linux/vmcore_info.h>
#include <asm/cpufeature.h>
#include <asm/memory.h>
+#include <asm/pgtable.h>
#include <asm/pgtable-hwdef.h>
#include <asm/pointer_auth.h>

@@ -36,4 +37,6 @@ void arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
vmcoreinfo_append_str("NUMBER(KERNELPACMASK)=0x%llx\n",
system_supports_address_auth() ?
ptrauth_kernel_pac_mask() : 0);
+ vmcoreinfo_append_str("NUMBER(pgtable_l5_enabled)=%d\n",
+ pgtable_l5_enabled());
}
--
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