Recent linux kernels enable KASLR to randomize phys/virt memory addresses. This series aims to provide enough information in qemu dumps so that crash utility can work with randomized kernel too (it hasn't been tested on other archs than x86 though, help welcome).
The vmcoreinfo device is an emulated ACPI device that exposes a 4k memory range to the guest to store various informations useful to debug the guest OS. (it is greatly inspired by the VMGENID device implementation). The version field with value 0 is meant to give paddr/size of the VMCOREINFO ELF PT_NOTE, other values can be used for different purposes or OSes. (note: some wanted to see pvpanic somehow merged with this device, I have no clear idea how to do that, nor do I think this is a good idea since the devices are quite different, used at different time for different purposes. And it can be done as a future iteration if it is appropriate, feel free to send patches) Crash 7.1.9 will parse the "phys_base" value from the VMCOREINFO note, and thus will work with KASLR-dump produced by this series. By priority, VMCOREINFO "phys_base" value is the most accurate. If not available, qemu will keep the current guessed value. The series implements the VMCOREINFO note addition in qemu ELF/kdump, as well as the python scripts/dump-guest-memory.py. To test: Compile and run a guest kernel with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y. Run qemu with -device vmcoreinfo. Load the experimental vmcoreinfo module in guest https://github.com/elmarco/vmgenid-test/blob/master/qemuvmci-test.c. Produce an ELF dump: { "execute": "dump-guest-memory", "arguments": { "protocol": "file:dump", "paging": false } } Produce a kdump: { "execute": "dump-guest-memory", "arguments": { "protocol": "file:dump", "paging": false, "format": "kdump-zlib" } } Or with (gdb) dump-guest-memory, with scripts/dump-guest-memory.py script. Analyze with crash >= 7.1.9 $ crash vmlinux dump v4: from Laszlo review - switch to warn_report*() - update test to follow vmgenid and use boot-sector infrastructure - fix range checks in the python script - add vmcoreinfo_get() stub v3: from Laszlo review - change vmcoreinfo offset to 36 - reset err to null after report - use PRIu32 - change name_size and desc_size against MAX_VMCOREINFO_SIZE - python code simplification - check boundaries of blocks in phys_memory_read() - fix some vmgi vs vmci names - add more comments in code - fix comment indentation - add r-b tags v2: from Laszlo review - vmci: fix guest endianess handling - vmci: fix wrong sizeof() - vmci: add back reset logic from vmgenid - dump: have 1MB size limit for vmcoreinfo - dump: fix potential off-by-1 buffer manipulation - dump: use temporary variable for qemu_strtou64 - dump: fixed VMCOREINFO duplication in kdump - update gdb script to not call into qemu process - update MAINTAINERS with some new files Marc-André Lureau (8): vmgenid: replace x-write-pointer-available hack acpi: add vmcoreinfo device stubs: add vmcoreinfo_get() stub tests: add simple vmcoreinfo test dump: add vmcoreinfo ELF note kdump: add vmcoreinfo ELF note scripts/dump-guest-memory.py: add vmcoreinfo MAINTAINERS: add Dump maintainers scripts/dump-guest-memory.py | 47 ++++++++ include/hw/acpi/aml-build.h | 1 + include/hw/acpi/bios-linker-loader.h | 2 + include/hw/acpi/vmcoreinfo.h | 37 ++++++ include/hw/compat.h | 4 - include/sysemu/dump.h | 2 + dump.c | 154 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ hw/acpi/aml-build.c | 2 + hw/acpi/bios-linker-loader.c | 10 ++ hw/acpi/vmcoreinfo.c | 211 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ hw/acpi/vmgenid.c | 9 +- hw/i386/acpi-build.c | 14 +++ stubs/vmcoreinfo.c | 9 ++ tests/vmcoreinfo-test.c | 141 +++++++++++++++++++++++ MAINTAINERS | 9 ++ default-configs/arm-softmmu.mak | 1 + default-configs/i386-softmmu.mak | 1 + default-configs/x86_64-softmmu.mak | 1 + docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt | 138 +++++++++++++++++++++++ hw/acpi/Makefile.objs | 1 + stubs/Makefile.objs | 1 + tests/Makefile.include | 2 + 22 files changed, 785 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) create mode 100644 include/hw/acpi/vmcoreinfo.h create mode 100644 hw/acpi/vmcoreinfo.c create mode 100644 stubs/vmcoreinfo.c create mode 100644 tests/vmcoreinfo-test.c create mode 100644 docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt -- 2.13.1.395.gf7b71de06
