kdump, vmcoreinfo: report actual value of phys_base
Currently, VMCOREINFO note information reports the virtual address of phys_base that is assigned to symbol phys_base. But this doesn't make sense because to refer to phys_base, it's necessary to get the value of phys_base itself we are now about to refer to. Userland tools related to kdump such as makedumpfile and crash utility so far have made some efforts to calculate phys_base on crash dump formats generated by mechanisms running outside Linux kernel, such as virtual machine hypervisor such as qemu dump, which ordinary users use via virsh dump, or ones implemented on vendor specific firmware. That is, find a kernel data whose virtual and physical addresses are available via its note information and calculate phys_base from it. However, such data structure is not the one prepared for phys_base purpose. There's no guarantee that other crash dump mechanisms include such information that can be used to calculate phys_base similarly. To get VMCOREINFO in vmcore, it's easy to use strings and grep commands like this; VMCOREINFO consists of simple string: $ strings vmcore-3.10.0-121.el7.x86_64 | grep -E ".*VMCOREINFO.*" -A 100 VMCOREINFO OSRELEASE=3.10.0-121.el7.x86_64 PAGESIZE=4096 ... This is also useful to get value of phys_base in kdump 2nd kernel contained in vmcore using the above-mentioned external crash dump mechanism; kdump 2nd kernel is an inherently relocated kernel. This commit doesn't remove VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(phys_base) line because makedumpfile refers to it and if removing it, old versions makedumpfile doesn't work well. Signed-off-by:HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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