From: Ken'ichi Ohmichi Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 20:04:50 +0000 (-0700) Subject: vmcoreinfo: add the symbol "phys_base" X-Git-Tag: v2.6.25-rc9~83 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=629c8b4cdb354518308663aff2f719e02f69ffbe;p=linux-2.6 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 Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c index 236d2f8f7d..576a03db45 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