Jason Yan <yanaijie@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > When kaslr is enabled, the kernel offset is different for every boot. > This brings some difficult to debug the kernel. Dump out the kernel > offset when panic so that we can easily debug the kernel. Some of this is taken from the arm64 version right? Please say so when you copy other people's code. > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c > index c4ed328a7b96..078fe3d76feb 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c > @@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ void arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void) > VMCOREINFO_STRUCT_SIZE(mmu_psize_def); > VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(mmu_psize_def, shift); > #endif > + vmcoreinfo_append_str("KERNELOFFSET=%lx\n", kaslr_offset()); > } There's no mention of that in the commit log. Please split it into a separate patch and describe what you're doing and why. > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c > index 1f8db666468d..064075f02837 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c > @@ -715,12 +715,31 @@ static struct notifier_block ppc_panic_block = { > .priority = INT_MIN /* may not return; must be done last */ > }; > > +/* > + * Dump out kernel offset information on panic. > + */ > +static int dump_kernel_offset(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long v, > + void *p) > +{ > + pr_emerg("Kernel Offset: 0x%lx from 0x%lx\n", > + kaslr_offset(), KERNELBASE); > + > + return 0; > +} > + > +static struct notifier_block kernel_offset_notifier = { > + .notifier_call = dump_kernel_offset > +}; > + > void __init setup_panic(void) > { > /* PPC64 always does a hard irq disable in its panic handler */ > if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC64) && !ppc_md.panic) > return; > atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list, &ppc_panic_block); > + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) && kaslr_offset() > 0) > + atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list, > + &kernel_offset_notifier); Don't you want to do that before the return above? > } cheers