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On x86 kernels configured with CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y and CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=n, the vmcoreinfo note in /proc/kcore is incomplete. Specifically, it is missing arch-specific information like the KASLR offset and whether 5-level page tables are enabled. This breaks applications like drgn [1] and crash [2], which need this information for live debugging via /proc/kcore. This happens because: 1. CONFIG_PROC_KCORE selects CONFIG_CRASH_CORE. 2. kernel/crash_core.c (compiled if CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y) calls arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() to get the arch-specific parts of vmcoreinfo. If it is not defined, then it uses a no-op fallback. 3. x86 defines arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() in arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_*.c, which is only compiled if CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y. Therefore, an x86 kernel with CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y and CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=n uses the no-op fallback and gets incomplete vmcoreinfo data. This isn't relevant to kdump, which requires CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE. It only affects applications which read vmcoreinfo at runtime, like the ones mentioned above. Fix it by moving arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() into two new arch/x86/kernel/crash_core_*.c files, which are gated behind CONFIG_CRASH_CORE. 1: |
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