On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 09:16:17PM +0800, Lianbo Jiang wrote:
> For AMD machine with SME feature, makedumpfile tools need to know
> whether the crash kernel was encrypted or not. If SME is enabled
> in the first kernel, the crash kernel's page table(pgd/pud/pmd/pte)
> contains the memory encryption mask, so need to remove the sme mask
> to obtain the true physical address.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <liji...@redhat.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
> b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
> index 4c8acdfdc5a7..1860fe24117d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
> @@ -352,10 +352,24 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
>
> void arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
> {
> + u64 sme_mask = sme_me_mask;
> +
> VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(phys_base);
> VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(init_top_pgt);
> vmcoreinfo_append_str("NUMBER(pgtable_l5_enabled)=%d\n",
> pgtable_l5_enabled());
> + /*
> + * Currently, the local variable 'sme_mask' stores the value of
> + * sme_me_mask(bit 47), and also write the value of sme_mask to
> + * the vmcoreinfo.
> + * If need, the bit(sme_mask) might be redefined in the future,
> + * but the 'bit63' will be reserved.
> + * For example:
> + * [ misc ][ enc bit ][ other misc SME info ]
> + * 0000_0000_0000_0000_1000_0000_0000_0000_0000_0000_..._0000
> + * 63 59 55 51 47 43 39 35 31 27 ... 3
> + */
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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