On 11/30/16 at 09:13pm, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
Then it is safe and reasonable, thanks for the clarification.
>
> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Eric
>
> >> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> 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
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