| Message ID | 20210627215252.wPZH5_Bbv%akpm@linux-foundation.org |
|---|---|
| State | New |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [merged] crash_core-vmcoreinfo-append-section_size_bits-to-vmcoreinfo.patch removed from -mm tree | expand |
--- a/kernel/crash_core.c~crash_core-vmcoreinfo-append-section_size_bits-to-vmcoreinfo +++ a/kernel/crash_core.c @@ -464,6 +464,7 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_ VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(mem_section, NR_SECTION_ROOTS); VMCOREINFO_STRUCT_SIZE(mem_section); VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(mem_section, section_mem_map); + VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(SECTION_SIZE_BITS); VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS); #endif VMCOREINFO_STRUCT_SIZE(page);
The patch titled Subject: crash_core, vmcoreinfo: append 'SECTION_SIZE_BITS' to vmcoreinfo has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was crash_core-vmcoreinfo-append-section_size_bits-to-vmcoreinfo.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com> Subject: crash_core, vmcoreinfo: append 'SECTION_SIZE_BITS' to vmcoreinfo As mentioned in kernel commit 1d50e5d0c505 ("crash_core, vmcoreinfo: Append 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' to vmcoreinfo"), SECTION_SIZE_BITS in the formula: #define SECTIONS_SHIFT (MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS - SECTION_SIZE_BITS) Besides SECTIONS_SHIFT, SECTION_SIZE_BITS is also used to calculate PAGES_PER_SECTION in makedumpfile just like kernel. Unfortunately, this arch-dependent macro SECTION_SIZE_BITS changes, e.g. recently in kernel commit f0b13ee23241 ("arm64/sparsemem: reduce SECTION_SIZE_BITS"). But user space wants a stable interface to get this info. Such info is impossible to be deduced from a crashdump vmcore. Hence append SECTION_SIZE_BITS to vmcoreinfo. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608103359.84907-1-kernelfans@gmail.com Link: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2021-June/022676.html Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Bhupesh Sharma <bhupesh.sharma@linaro.org> Cc: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio@ab.jp.nec.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Boris Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> --- kernel/crash_core.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)