Laurence and Joe, Can you gents test Atsushi's fix in your environments? Thanks, Dave ----- Original Message ----- > Hello Dave, > > >>Note that PAGE_MAPPING_ANON is now only set in the compound_head page, > >>so when makedumpfile walks though the pages, it will have to look > >>at each page's head page for the bit setting. > > > >Thanks for your report. > >As you said, it seems checking the head page like kernel does is necessary. > >I'll try to work it out, please give me some time. > > Reading head page's page->mapping for each tail page will take extra time, > so I contrived another way. > > It's just skipping compound tail pages for filtering. > If makedumpfile excludes compound pages, it will be done at a time by > exclude_range() at the time of checking the compound head page. We don't > need to check compound tail pages individually. > > I made the patch, could you test the *compound* branch below ? > This version requires a new unexported symbol, you need to specify > -x vmlinux for now. > > https://sourceforge.net/p/makedumpfile/code/ci/compound/tree/ > > > Thanks, > Atsushi Kumagai > > >>As it is now, makedumpfile runs amok filtering pages that still have > >>stuff left in page->mapping. For example, all of the addresses in > >>my "filtered.list" input file are those of legitimate kernel data > >>structures that have been incorrectly filtered because PAGE_MAPPING_ANON > >>(bit 1) has been left set: > >> > >>crash> kmem -p < filtered.list > >> PAGE PHYSICAL MAPPING INDEX CNT FLAGS > >>ffffea0011b29040 46ca41000 dead0000ffffffff 0 0 3ffff800000000 > >> PAGE PHYSICAL MAPPING INDEX CNT FLAGS > >>ffffea0011b29040 46ca41000 dead0000ffffffff 0 0 3ffff800000000 > >> PAGE PHYSICAL MAPPING INDEX CNT FLAGS > >>ffffea0011b29640 46ca59000 dead0000ffffffff 0 0 3ffff800000000 > >> PAGE PHYSICAL MAPPING INDEX CNT FLAGS > >>ffffea0011b29640 46ca59000 dead0000ffffffff 0 0 3ffff800000000 > >> PAGE PHYSICAL MAPPING INDEX CNT FLAGS > >>ffffea0001d51640 75459000 dead0000ffffffff 0 0 1ffff800000000 > >>... > >> > >>In earlier kernels, the page->mapping fields above would not have > >>their PAGE_MAPPING_ANON set. > >> > >>Dave > > > >-- > >Crash-utility mailing list > >Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx > >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility > -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility