RE: [PATCH 1/2 v2] kdump: add the vmcoreinfo documentation

2018-12-05 Thread Kazuhito Hagio
> >> Generating VMCOREINFO is easy in the first kernel, for example: > >> # makedumpfile -g VMCOREINFO -x vmlinux > > > > I get: > > > > $ makedumpfile -g VMCOREINFO -x vmlinux > > The kernel version is not supported. > > The makedumpfile operation may be incomplete. > > > > The vmcoreinfo is saved

[ANNOUNCE] makedumpfile 1.6.5 is released

2018-12-05 Thread Kazuhito Hagio
Hi, I'm pleased to announce the release of makedumpfile-1.6.5. Your comments/patches are welcome. Main new features: o Improve support for arm64 system with KASLR - The -x option and --mem-usage option are supported. o Support new kernels - The supported kernel is updated to 4.19.4 in this v

Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] kdump: add the vmcoreinfo documentation

2018-12-05 Thread lijiang
在 2018年12月05日 18:16, Dave Young 写道: +init_uts_ns +=== +This is the UTS namespace, which is used to isolate two specific elements +of the system that relate to the uname system call. The UTS namespace is +named after the data structure used to store information retur

Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] kdump: add the vmcoreinfo documentation

2018-12-05 Thread lijiang
在 2018年12月05日 19:30, Borislav Petkov 写道: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 05:35:09PM +0800, lijiang wrote: >> There are more people to review and improve this document together, that >> would >> be fine. > > That's basically kernel development :) > >> Generating VMCOREINFO is easy in the first kernel,

Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] kdump: add the vmcoreinfo documentation

2018-12-05 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 05:35:09PM +0800, lijiang wrote: > There are more people to review and improve this document together, that would > be fine. That's basically kernel development :) > Generating VMCOREINFO is easy in the first kernel, for example: > # makedumpfile -g VMCOREINFO -x vmlinux

Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] kdump, vmcoreinfo: Export the value of sme mask to vmcoreinfo

2018-12-05 Thread Dave Young
On 12/02/18 at 11:08am, 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

Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] kdump: add the vmcoreinfo documentation

2018-12-05 Thread Dave Young
> >> +init_uts_ns > >> +=== > >> +This is the UTS namespace, which is used to isolate two specific elements > >> +of the system that relate to the uname system call. The UTS namespace is > >> +named after the data structure used to store information returned by the > >> +uname system call.

[PATCH v2] x86: Handle 64bit framebuffer memory address properly

2018-12-05 Thread Kairui Song
In a EFI system, the frame buffer address is 64bit, so currently if the address is beyound 4G, kexec will set wrong address due to truncate. Linux kernel commit ae2ee627dc87 ('efifb: Add support for 64-bit frame buffer addresses') added support for 64bit frame buffer address, an 'ext_lfb_base' fie