Hi Dave, On 11/01/16 at 10:13am, Dave Anderson wrote: > > > > > But we have this in mainline which also introduced the VMCOREINFO > > > numbers, can you send a patch to revert them? > > > > OK, will do. > > > > However for find_vmemmap_x86_64() in makedumpfile, vmemmap_start is > > still needed. I checked code, seems no better way to avoid. I am not > > sure how many people are really using "-e" option to exclude unused > > vmemmap pages. > > > > Maybe just leave it as is, and fix it when people complain? > > Speaking of complaints, is there any chance you can make the > x86_64 "phys_base" value available? The VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(phys_base) > is useless since its contents are needed in order to access the > symbol address. Yeah, the current exporting of virt addr of phys_base is really useless for x86_64. While I saw you have got phys_base from kdump-ed vmcore elf program header since kexec-tools has created that pt_load for kernel text region. machdep->machspec->phys_base = phdr->p_paddr - (phdr->p_vaddr & ~(__START_KERNEL_map)); Do you still want the value of phys_base? If yes, I can change it to export the real value of phys_base, not &phys_base. In fact, exporting &phys_base was done in 2008, makedumpfile has taken the similar way you use in crash to get value of phys_base. Means it has been ignored very earlier. You could be the first person to complain about it. Thanks Baoquan
