-----Original Message----- > Hi, Vincent > Thank you for your reply and suggestion. > > > On 02/10/2021 09:59 PM, Vincent Whitchurch wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 12:13:31PM +0100, Youling Tang wrote: > > "__node_data" instead of "node_data" is used in the MIPS > architecture, > so "__node_data" is used to replace "node_data" to improve the > use of > next_online_pgdat() functions in the MIPS architecture. > > > On my 32-bit MIPS dumps, MEMORY: works properly without this patch, but > they have contig_page_data instead of __node_data/node_data so they > > When the node_data/__node_data and pgdat_list symbols cannot be successfully > read from the kernel symbols, the contig_page_data symbol will be read. In > your 32-bit machine, there should be no node_data/__node_data, pgdat_list > symbols, and a single node, so the memory size can be displayed normally > without this patch. > > > shouldn't be affected by this code. AFAICS only mach-loongson64 and > mach-ip27 have __node_data. > > > Yes, only mach-loongson64 and mach-ip27 use __node_data in the MIPS > architecture. > > > > E.g. Without this patch: > ... > MEMORY: 0 > ... > > > With this patch: > ... > MEMORY: 7.5 GB > ... > > Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Youling Tang <[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected]> > --- > memory.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++---------- > 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/memory.c b/memory.c > index 33b0ca7..5347958 100644 > --- a/memory.c > +++ b/memory.c > @@ -17820,22 +17820,28 @@ next_online_pgdat(int node) > char buf[BUFSIZE]; > ulong pgdat; > > +#ifndef __mips__ > +#define NODE_DATA_VAR "node_data" > +#else > +#define NODE_DATA_VAR "__node_data" > +#endif > > > Is this really correct? Doesn't __mips__ check the host architecture > when what we want to check here is the target? > > The results of filtering in the kernel code are as follows : > # grep -wnr "EXPORT_SYMBOL(node_data)" > arch/alpha/mm/numa.c:23:EXPORT_SYMBOL(node_data); > arch/arc/mm/init.c:37:EXPORT_SYMBOL(node_data); > arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c:1106:EXPORT_SYMBOL(node_data); > arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c:52:EXPORT_SYMBOL(node_data); > arch/s390/kernel/numa.c:18:EXPORT_SYMBOL(node_data); > arch/arm64/mm/numa.c:20:EXPORT_SYMBOL(node_data); > arch/x86/mm/numa.c:26:EXPORT_SYMBOL(node_data); > > # grep -wnr "EXPORT_SYMBOL(__node_data)" > arch/mips/sgi-ip27/ip27-memory.c:38:EXPORT_SYMBOL(__node_data); > arch/mips/loongson64/numa.c:33:EXPORT_SYMBOL(__node_data); > > > In the MIPS architecture, no platform uses node_data, only the __node_data > symbol. All other architectures use node_data symbols, so it should be > feasible to use __mips__ to determine the target (as long as it is a MIPS > architecture, use __node_data instead of node_data).
OK. Could you add a code comment about this to avoid confusion? Thanks, Kazu -- Crash-utility mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
