Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com> writes:
> Hi, Laura
> On 11/29/16 at 10:55am, Laura Abbott wrote:
>>
>> __pa_symbol is the correct api to get the physical address of kernel
>> symbols. Switch to it to allow for better debug checking.
>>
>
> I assume __pa_symbol is faster than __pa, but it still need some testing
> on all arches which support kexec.
>
> But seems long long ago there is a commit e3ebadd95cb in the commit log
> I see below from:
> "we should deprecate __pa_symbol(), and preferably __pa() too - and
> just use "virt_to_phys()" instead, which is is more readable and has
> nicer semantics."
>
> But maybe in modern code __pa_symbol is prefered I may miss background.
> virt_to_phys still sounds more readable now for me though.
There has been a lot of history with the various definitions.
__pa_symbol used to be x86 specific.
Now what we have is that __pa_symbol is just __pa(RELOC_HIDE(x));
Now arguably that whole reloc hide thing should happen by architectures
having a non-inline version of __pa as was done in the commit you
mention. But at this point there appears to be nothing wrong with
changing a __pa to a __pa_symbol it might make things a tad more
reliable depending on the implementation of __pa.
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Eric
>> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott at redhat.com>
>> ---
>> Found during review of the kernel. Untested.
>> ---
>> kernel/kexec_core.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
>> index 5616755..e1b625e 100644
>> --- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
>> +++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
>> @@ -1397,7 +1397,7 @@ void __weak arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
>>
>> phys_addr_t __weak paddr_vmcoreinfo_note(void)
>> {
>> - return __pa((unsigned long)(char *)&vmcoreinfo_note);
>> + return __pa_symbol((unsigned long)(char *)&vmcoreinfo_note);
>> }
>>
>> static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init(void)
>> --
>> 2.7.4
>>
>>
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>
> Thanks
> Dave
