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Date:   Mon, 29 Aug 2016 07:20:08 -0700
From:   Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
To:     Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Xunlei Pang <xlpang@...hat.com>,
        HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
        Eugene Surovegin <surovegin@...gle.com>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] kdump, vmcoreinfo: report memory sections virtual addresses

Great, thanks Baoquan.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 3:11 AM, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I used below code and it works. Since using VMCOREINFO_NUMBER can reuse
> the existing struct number_table to import the data. It makes change
> easier. But the place could be next to KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE, or as your
> patch did, both is fine.
>
> ---
>  kernel/kexec_core.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
> index 5616755..81bde86 100644
> --- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
> @@ -1469,6 +1469,9 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init(void)
>         VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE);
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86
>         VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE);
> +       VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(PAGE_OFFSET);
> +       VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(VMALLOC_START);
> +       VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(VMEMMAP_START);
>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
>         VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(HUGETLB_PAGE_DTOR);
> --
> 2.5.5
>
> On 08/18/16 at 07:47am, Thomas Garnier wrote:
>> KASLR memory randomization can randomize the base of the physical memory
>> mapping (PAGE_OFFSET), vmalloc (VMALLOC_START) and vmemmap
>> (VMEMMAP_START). Adding these variables on VMCOREINFO so tools can
>> easily identify the base of each memory section.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
>> ---
>> Based on next-20160817
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 3 +++
>>  include/linux/kexec.h              | 6 ++++++
>>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
>> index fc3389f..b1f15a2 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
>> @@ -338,6 +338,9 @@ void arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
>>       vmcoreinfo_append_str("KERNELOFFSET=%lx\n",
>>                             kaslr_offset());
>>       VMCOREINFO_PHYS_BASE(phys_base);
>> +     VMCOREINFO_PAGE_OFFSET(PAGE_OFFSET);
>> +     VMCOREINFO_VMALLOC_START(VMALLOC_START);
>> +     VMCOREINFO_VMEMMAP_START(VMEMMAP_START);
>>  }
>>
>>  /* arch-dependent functionality related to kexec file-based syscall */
>> diff --git a/include/linux/kexec.h b/include/linux/kexec.h
>> index d3ae429..cd3874c 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/kexec.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
>> @@ -261,6 +261,12 @@ phys_addr_t paddr_vmcoreinfo_note(void);
>>       vmcoreinfo_append_str("CONFIG_%s=y\n", #name)
>>  #define VMCOREINFO_PHYS_BASE(value) \
>>       vmcoreinfo_append_str("PHYS_BASE=%lx\n", (unsigned long)value)
>> +#define VMCOREINFO_PAGE_OFFSET(value) \
>> +     vmcoreinfo_append_str("PAGE_OFFSET=%lx\n", (unsigned long)value)
>> +#define VMCOREINFO_VMALLOC_START(value) \
>> +     vmcoreinfo_append_str("VMALLOC_START=%lx\n", (unsigned long)value)
>> +#define VMCOREINFO_VMEMMAP_START(value) \
>> +     vmcoreinfo_append_str("VMEMMAP_START=%lx\n", (unsigned long)value)
>>
>>  extern struct kimage *kexec_image;
>>  extern struct kimage *kexec_crash_image;
>> --
>> 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020
>>
>>
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