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| author | Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> | 2008-04-02 13:04:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-04-02 15:28:19 -0700 |
| commit | 629c8b4cdb354518308663aff2f719e02f69ffbe (patch) | |
| tree | 0754db238b377089f77b57ba4a8071054119fb33 /arch | |
| parent | 865965a66ea616a413012edcd3a10ef39c06d672 (diff) | |
vmcoreinfo: add the symbol "phys_base"
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 <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c index 236d2f8f7ddc..576a03db4511 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_NUMA |