[Crash-utility] Re: [PATCH v4] arm64: Add vmemmap support

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On 2024/03/04 10:43, Shijie Huang wrote:
> Hi Kazu,
> 
> 在 2023/12/21 10:56, HAGIO KAZUHITO(萩尾 一仁) 写道:
>> On 2023/12/19 0:01, Huang Shijie wrote:
>>> If the kernel exports the vmmemap then we can use that symbol in
>>> crash to optimize access. vmmemap is just an array of page structs
>>> after all.
>>>
>>> This patch tries to:
>>>     1.) Get the "vmemmap" from the vmcore file.
>>>         If we can use the "vmemmap", we implement the 
>>> arm64_vmemmap_is_page_ptr
>>>         and set it to machdep->is_page_ptr.
>>>     2.) We implement the fast page_to_pfn code in 
>>> arm64_vmemmap_is_page_ptr.
>>>     3.) Dump it in "help -m"
>>>
>>> Test result:
>>>    Without the this patch:
>>>      #files -p xxx > /dev/null (xxx is the inode of vmlinux which is 
>>> 441M)
>>>        This costed about 185 seconds.
>>>
>>>    With the this patch:
>>>      #files -p xxx > /dev/null (xxx is the inode of vmlinux which is 
>>> 441M)
>>>        This costed 3 seconds.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> v3 --> v4:
>>>     Use "files -p" to measure the time.
>>>     Dump it in "help -m"
>> Acked-by: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio-ab@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> Applied the 1/2 first,
>> https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/commit/19d3c56c9fca
>>
>> and will apply this when a corresponding kernel patch gets applied.
> 
> The corresponding kernel patch has been merged:
> 
>   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/crash_core-export-vmemmap-when-config_sparsemem_vmemmap-is-enabled.patch
> 
> 
> Could you please merge this one for crash?

Thank you for the info, usually we merge when it lands in the mainline, 
so will do at 6.9-rc1?

Thanks,
Kazu
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