commit a5b76cbbbe0fb76270f7babce48bda9b8806f9ea
Author: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed Apr 2 23:15:03 2008 +0000
vmcoreinfo: add the symbol "phys_base"
upstream commit: 629c8b4cdb354518308663aff2f719e02f69ffbe
Fix the problem that makedumpfile sometimes fails on x86_64 machine.
This patch adds the symbol "phys_base" to a vmcoreinfo data. The
vmcoreinfo data has the minimum debugging information only for dump
filtering. makedumpfile (dump filtering command) gets it to distinguish
unnecessary pages, and makedumpfile creates a small dumpfile.
On x86_64 kernel which compiled with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x0 and
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, makedumpfile fails like the following:
# makedumpfile -d31 /proc/vmcore dumpfile
The kernel version is not supported.
The created dumpfile may be incomplete.
_exclude_free_page: Can't get next online node.
makedumpfile Failed.
#
The cause is the lack of the symbol "phys_base" in a vmcoreinfo data.
If the symbol "phys_base" does not exist, makedumpfile considers an
x86_64 kernel as non relocatable. As the result, makedumpfile
misunderstands the physical address where the kernel is loaded, and it
cannot translate a kernel virtual address to physical address correctly.
To fix this problem, this patch adds the symbol "phys_base" to a
vmcoreinfo data.
Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
index aa3d2c8..1f09cd9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ NORET_TYPE void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
void arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
{
+ VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(phys_base);
VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(init_level4_pgt);
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
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