Re: [PATCH 1/3] proc/vmcore: Do not map unaccepted memory

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On 11.09.23 10:41, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 10:03:36AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
On 06.09.23 09:39, Adrian Hunter wrote:
Support for unaccepted memory was added recently, refer commit
dcdfdd40fa82 ("mm: Add support for unaccepted memory"), whereby
a virtual machine may need to accept memory before it can be used.

Do not map unaccepted memory because it can cause the guest to fail.

For /proc/vmcore, which is read-only, this means a read or mmap of
unaccepted memory will return zeros.

Does a second (kdump) kernel that exposes /proc/vmcore reliably get access
to the information whether memory of the first kernel is unaccepted (IOW,
not its memory, but the memory of the first kernel it is supposed to expose
via /proc/vmcore)?

There are few patches in my queue to few related issue, but generally,
yes, the information is available to the target kernel via EFI
configuration table.

I assume that table provided by the first kernel, and not read directly from HW, correct?

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb


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