Given the lack of any feedback from any of the IBM ppc64 users on the list, I went ahead and wrote a simple patch that presumably suffices for the 3.10 ppc64 virtual-to-physical translation changes. The patch only deals with the PTE_INDEX_SIZE, PMD_INDEX_SIZE and PGD_INDEX_SIZE changes in 419df06eea5bfa815e3a78e0aad6cfb320c1654f, but does nothing for the pgd_index() change in 0e5f35d0e4a8179cdfac115023f418126419e659. The crash utility has a PGD_OFFSET_L4() macro, but the index it uses always seems to equate to zero, so I left it alone. With the patch applied, the "WARNING: cannot access vmalloc'd module memory" message is no longer seen during initialization: # ./crash crash 7.0.2rc4 Copyright (C) 2002-2013 Red Hat, Inc. Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010 IBM Corporation Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Co Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012 Fujitsu Limited Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. 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KERNEL: /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/3.10.0-0.rc7.64.el7.ppc64/vmlinux DUMPFILE: /dev/crash CPUS: 28 DATE: Mon Jul 8 15:34:32 2013 UPTIME: 00:54:18 LOAD AVERAGE: 0.02, 0.33, 0.42 TASKS: 294 NODENAME: ibm-p720-01-lp5.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com RELEASE: 3.10.0-0.rc7.64.el7.ppc64 VERSION: #1 SMP Tue Jun 25 10:03:47 EDT 2013 MACHINE: ppc64 (3000 Mhz) MEMORY: 8 GB PID: 15797 COMMAND: "crash" TASK: c0000001f5e39de0 [THREAD_INFO: c0000001f5ed4000] CPU: 1 STATE: TASK_RUNNING (ACTIVE) crash> Module vmalloc'd virtual addresses can be translated such that the module list can be traversed: crash> mod MODULE NAME SIZE OBJECT FILE d000000001016f08 dm_mod 126667 (not loaded) [CONFIG_KALLSYMS] d000000001072a60 dm_log 14799 (not loaded) [CONFIG_KALLSYMS] d0000000010d2308 dm_region_hash 14977 (not loaded) [CONFIG_KALLSYMS] d000000001134778 dm_mirror 21713 (not loaded) [CONFIG_KALLSYMS] d000000001192e40 scsi_tgt 17615 (not loaded) [CONFIG_KALLSYMS] d0000000011f14c8 scsi_transport_srp 8607 (not loaded) [CONFIG_KALLSYMS] d000000001266d60 ibmvscsi 34969 (not loaded) [CONFIG_KALLSYMS] d0000000012c02f8 crc_t10dif 1671 (not loaded) [CONFIG_KALLSYMS] ... and a module address translated to its physical address: crash> vtop d000000001016f08 VIRTUAL PHYSICAL d000000001016f08 1f48d6f08 PAGE DIRECTORY: c0000000011d0000 L4: c0000000011d0000 => c0000001fb980000 PMD: c0000001fb980008 => c0000001fb961000 PMD: c0000001fb980008 => fb961008 PTE: fb961008 => 7d2348000395 PAGE: 1f48d0000 PTE PHYSICAL FLAGS 7d2348000395 1f48d0000 (PRESENT|RW|COHERENT|DIRTY|ACCESSED) PAGE PHYSICAL MAPPING INDEX CNT FLAGS c000000004541ed8 1f48d0000 0 0 1 7d00000000000 crash> And with that physical address, the module contents confirm the correct location is being read: crash> module d000000001016f08 struct module { state = MODULE_STATE_LIVE, list = { next = 0xc000000000feea88 <modules>, prev = 0xd000000001072a68 }, name = "dm_mod", mkobj = { kobj = { name = 0xc0000001f9120110 "dm_mod", entry = { next = 0xd000000001072ab8, prev = 0xc0000001fe084ce8 }, parent = 0xc0000001fe083258, kset = 0xc0000001fe083240, ktype = 0xc000000000feb620 <module_ktype>, ... And user-space virtual addresses can be translated, for example to translate and read the first page of the crash executable, which contains the ELF header: crash> vm PID: 15797 TASK: c0000001f5e39de0 CPU: 1 COMMAND: "crash" MM PGD RSS TOTAL_VM c0000001f7d1dc00 c0000001dddb0000 166656k 316032k VMA START END FLAGS FILE c00000001bd10b80 10000000 10970000 875 /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/crash-7.0.1/crash c00000001bd17528 10970000 10980000 100871 /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/crash-7.0.1/crash c00000001bd12840 10980000 10a30000 100873 /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/crash-7.0.1/crash c00000001bd19918 10a30000 10ac0000 100073 c00000001bd15d70 10034e20000 10038860000 100073 ... crash> vtop 10000000 VIRTUAL PHYSICAL 10000000 118ec0000 PAGE DIRECTORY: c0000001dddb0000 L4: c0000001dddb0000 => c0000001f7e78000 PMD: c0000001f7e78080 => c0000000a90c2000 PMD: c0000001f7e78080 => a90c2000 PTE: a90c2000 => 463b08000117 PAGE: 118ec0000 PTE PHYSICAL FLAGS 463b08000117 118ec0000 (PRESENT|USER|RW|COHERENT|ACCESSED) VMA START END FLAGS FILE c00000001bd10b80 10000000 10970000 875 /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/crash-7.0.1/crash PAGE PHYSICAL MAPPING INDEX CNT FLAGS c0000000037833a0 118ec0000 c000000101a5e4e0 0 3 460000000086c crash> rd -p 118ec0000 2 118ec0000: 7f454c4602020100 0000000000000000 .ELF............ crash> If there are no objections, I'll queue it for crash-7.0.2. Thanks, Dave --- crash-7.0.1/defs.h.orig +++ crash-7.0.1/defs.h @@ -3486,6 +3486,9 @@ struct efi_memory_desc_t { #define PMD_INDEX_SIZE_L4_64K 12 #define PUD_INDEX_SIZE_L4_64K 0 #define PGD_INDEX_SIZE_L4_64K 4 +#define PTE_INDEX_SIZE_L4_64K_3_10 8 +#define PMD_INDEX_SIZE_L4_64K_3_10 10 +#define PGD_INDEX_SIZE_L4_64K_3_10 12 #define PTE_SHIFT_L4_64K_V1 32 #define PTE_SHIFT_L4_64K_V2 30 #define PTE_SHIFT_L4_BOOK3E_64K 28 --- crash-7.0.1/ppc64.c.orig +++ crash-7.0.1/ppc64.c @@ -227,10 +227,18 @@ ppc64_init(int when) struct machine_specific *m = machdep->machspec; if (machdep->pagesize == 65536) { /* 64K pagesize */ - m->l1_index_size = PTE_INDEX_SIZE_L4_64K; - m->l2_index_size = PMD_INDEX_SIZE_L4_64K; - m->l3_index_size = PUD_INDEX_SIZE_L4_64K; - m->l4_index_size = PGD_INDEX_SIZE_L4_64K; + if (THIS_KERNEL_VERSION >= LINUX(3,10,0)) { + m->l1_index_size = PTE_INDEX_SIZE_L4_64K_3_10; + m->l2_index_size = PMD_INDEX_SIZE_L4_64K_3_10; + m->l3_index_size = PUD_INDEX_SIZE_L4_64K; + m->l4_index_size = PGD_INDEX_SIZE_L4_64K_3_10; + + } else { + m->l1_index_size = PTE_INDEX_SIZE_L4_64K; + m->l2_index_size = PMD_INDEX_SIZE_L4_64K; + m->l3_index_size = PUD_INDEX_SIZE_L4_64K; + m->l4_index_size = PGD_INDEX_SIZE_L4_64K; + } if (!(machdep->flags & BOOK3E)) m->pte_shift = symbol_exists("demote_segment_4k") ? 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