linux/arch/x86
Baoquan He 401721ecd1 kexec: export the value of phys_base instead of symbol address
Currently in x86_64, the symbol address of phys_base is exported to
vmcoreinfo.  Dave Anderson complained this is really useless for his
Crash implementation.  Because in user-space utility Crash and
Makedumpfile which exported vmcore information is mainly used for, value
of phys_base is needed to covert virtual address of exported kernel
symbol to physical address.  Especially init_level4_pgt, if we want to
access and go over the page table to look up a PA corresponding to VA,
firstly we need calculate

  page_dir = SYMBOL(init_level4_pgt) - __START_KERNEL_map + phys_base;

Now in Crash and Makedumpfile, we have to analyze the vmcore elf program
header to get value of phys_base.  As Dave said, it would be preferable
if it were readily availabl in vmcoreinfo rather than depending upon the
PT_LOAD semantics.

Hence in this patch change to export the value of phys_base instead of
its virtual address.

And people also complained that KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE exporting is x86_64
only, should be moved into arch dependent function
arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo.  Do the moving in this patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478568596-30060-2-git-send-email-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Eugene Surovegin <surovegin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <ats-kumagai@wm.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-12-14 16:04:07 -08:00
..
boot Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-12 14:13:30 -08:00
configs IOMMU Updates for Linux v4.9 2016-10-11 12:52:41 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' into x86/fpu, to resolve conflicts 2016-11-23 07:18:09 +01:00
entry Merge branch 'linus' into x86/asm, to pick up fixes 2016-11-01 07:41:06 +01:00
events Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-12 14:20:14 -08:00
ia32 x86/signal: Add SA_{X32,IA32}_ABI sa_flags 2016-09-14 21:28:11 +02:00
include xen: features and fixes for 4.10 rc0 2016-12-13 16:07:55 -08:00
kernel kexec: export the value of phys_base instead of symbol address 2016-12-14 16:04:07 -08:00
kvm Small release, the most interesting stuff is x86 nested virt improvements. 2016-12-13 15:47:02 -08:00
lguest x86/fpu: Remove clts() 2016-11-01 07:47:55 +01:00
lib Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-12 13:49:57 -08:00
math-emu
mm Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-12 14:27:49 -08:00
net bpf: xdp: Allow head adjustment in XDP prog 2016-12-08 14:25:13 -05:00
oprofile x86/oprofile/nmi: Convert to hotplug state machine 2016-11-22 23:34:43 +01:00
pci xen: features and fixes for 4.10 rc0 2016-12-13 16:07:55 -08:00
platform TTY/Serial patches for 4.10-rc1 2016-12-13 11:18:24 -08:00
power PM / hibernate: Verify the consistent of e820 memory map by md5 digest 2016-11-14 01:18:32 +01:00
purgatory x86/kexec: add -fno-PIE 2016-11-09 22:28:09 +01:00
ras x86/RAS: Add TSC timestamp to the injected MCE 2016-11-08 17:10:13 +01:00
realmode x86/build: Don't use $(LINUXINCLUDE) twice 2016-11-28 07:49:17 +01:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-12 13:49:57 -08:00
um locking/core: Provide common cpu_relax_yield() definition 2016-11-17 08:17:36 +01:00
video x86/video: Don't assume all FB devices are PCI devices 2016-03-15 11:08:26 +01:00
xen xen: features and fixes for 4.10 rc0 2016-12-13 16:07:55 -08:00
.gitignore
Kbuild perf/x86: Move perf_event.c ............... => x86/events/core.c 2016-02-09 10:23:49 +01:00
Kconfig These are the documentation changes for 4.10. 2016-12-12 21:58:13 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-15 09:32:27 -07:00
Makefile lib/raid6: Add AVX512 optimized gen_syndrome functions 2016-09-21 09:09:44 -07:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um