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Right now user-space tools like 'makedumpfile' and 'crash' need to rely on a best-guess method of determining value of 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' supported by underlying kernel. This value is used in user-space code to calculate the bit-space required to store a section for SPARESMEM (similar to the existing calculation method used in the kernel implementation): #define SECTIONS_SHIFT (MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS - SECTION_SIZE_BITS) Now, regressions have been reported in user-space utilities like 'makedumpfile' and 'crash' on arm64, with the recently added kernel support for 52-bit physical address space, as there is no clear method of determining this value in user-space (other than reading kernel CONFIG flags). As per suggestion from makedumpfile maintainer (Kazu), it makes more sense to append 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' to vmcoreinfo in the core code itself rather than in arch-specific code, so that the user-space code for other archs can also benefit from this addition to the vmcoreinfo and use it as a standard way of determining 'SECTIONS_SHIFT' value in user-land. A reference 'makedumpfile' implementation which reads the 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' value from vmcoreinfo in a arch-independent fashion is available here: While at it also update vmcoreinfo documentation for 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' variable being added to vmcoreinfo. 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' defines the maximum supported physical address space memory. Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> Tested-by: John Donnelly <john.p.donnelly@oracle.com> Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Boris Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com> Cc: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio@ab.jp.nec.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1589395957-24628-2-git-send-email-bhsharma@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.