Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
x86: Dump filtering supports x86_64 sparsemem
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
This patch adds the symbol "init_level4_pgt" to the vmcoreinfo data so
that makedumpfile (dump filtering command) supports x86_64 sparsemem 
kernel of linux-2.6.24.

makedumpfile creates a small dumpfile by excluding unnecessary pages for
the analysis. It checks attributes in page structures and distinguishes
necessary pages and unnecessary ones. To check them, makedumpfile gets
the vmcoreinfo data which has the minimum debugging information only for
dump filtering.

For older x86_64 kernel (linux-2.6.23 or before), makedumpfile translates
the virtual address of page structure into physical address by subtracting
PAGE_OFFSET from virtual address, but this translation isn't effective for
linux-2.6.24 sparsemem kernel, because its page structures are in virtual
memmap area. makedumpfile should translate their virtual address by 4-levels
paging and it needs the symbol "init_level4_pgt".

Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
  • Loading branch information
Ken'ichi Ohmichi authored and Thomas Gleixner committed Oct 27, 2007
1 parent 03d0d20 commit 69243f9
Showing 1 changed file with 2 additions and 0 deletions.
2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -233,6 +233,8 @@ NORET_TYPE void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)

void arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
{
VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(init_level4_pgt);

#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(node_data);
VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(node_data, MAX_NUMNODES);
Expand Down

0 comments on commit 69243f9

Please sign in to comment.