Like all other architectures such as x86 or arm64, include KASLR offset
in VMCOREINFO ELF notes to assist in debugging. After this, we can use
crash --kaslr option to parse vmcore generated from a kaslr kernel.
Note: The crash tool needs to support --kaslr too.
Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
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());
}
/*
--
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