kexec: export the value of phys_base instead of symbol address

Currently in x86_64, the symbol address of phys_base is exported to
vmcoreinfo.  Dave Anderson complained this is really useless for his
Crash implementation.  Because in user-space utility Crash and
Makedumpfile which exported vmcore information is mainly used for, value
of phys_base is needed to covert virtual address of exported kernel
symbol to physical address.  Especially init_level4_pgt, if we want to
access and go over the page table to look up a PA corresponding to VA,
firstly we need calculate

  page_dir = SYMBOL(init_level4_pgt) - __START_KERNEL_map + phys_base;

Now in Crash and Makedumpfile, we have to analyze the vmcore elf program
header to get value of phys_base.  As Dave said, it would be preferable
if it were readily availabl in vmcoreinfo rather than depending upon the
PT_LOAD semantics.

Hence in this patch change to export the value of phys_base instead of
its virtual address.

And people also complained that KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE exporting is x86_64
only, should be moved into arch dependent function
arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo.  Do the moving in this patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478568596-30060-2-git-send-email-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Eugene Surovegin <surovegin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <ats-kumagai@wm.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
index 5a294e48b18529045ae4371f4ef8dc281773aea8..307b1f4543de4bc96c6759c5f81a7faf5c9f443c 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 
 void arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
 {
-       VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(phys_base);
+       VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(phys_base);
        VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(init_level4_pgt);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
@@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ void arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
 #endif
        vmcoreinfo_append_str("KERNELOFFSET=%lx\n",
                              kaslr_offset());
+       VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE);
 }
 
 /* arch-dependent functionality related to kexec file-based syscall */

diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
index 5616755895119bef0d69066c4c33f60ffa3afcc8..8ad3a29eb72850079eb9f22c78f3ae071fc59919 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
@@ -1467,9 +1467,6 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init(void)
 #endif
        VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(PG_head_mask);
        VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE);
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86
-       VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE);
-#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
        VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(HUGETLB_PAGE_DTOR);
 #endif