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kexec: move vmcoreinfo out of the kernel's .bss section

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As Eric said,
 "what we need to do is move the variable vmcoreinfo_note out of the
  kernel's .bss section. And modify the code to regenerate and keep this
  information in something like the control page.

  Definitely something like this needs a page all to itself, and ideally
  far away from any other kernel data structures. I clearly was not
  watching closely the data someone decided to keep this silly thing in
  the kernel's .bss section."

This patch allocates extra pages for these vmcoreinfo_XXX variables, one
advantage is that it enhances some safety of vmcoreinfo, because
vmcoreinfo now is kept far away from other kernel data structures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493281021-20737-1-git-send-email-xlpang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Xunlei Pang 2017-07-12 14:33:14 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 112166f88c
commit 203e9e4121
8 changed files with 29 additions and 21 deletions
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include/linux/crash_core.h
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@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
CRASH_CORE_NOTE_NAME_BYTES + \
CRASH_CORE_NOTE_DESC_BYTES)
#define VMCOREINFO_BYTES (4096)
#define VMCOREINFO_BYTES PAGE_SIZE
#define VMCOREINFO_NOTE_NAME "VMCOREINFO"
#define VMCOREINFO_NOTE_NAME_BYTES ALIGN(sizeof(VMCOREINFO_NOTE_NAME), 4)
#define VMCOREINFO_NOTE_SIZE ((CRASH_CORE_NOTE_HEAD_BYTES * 2) + \
@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ phys_addr_t paddr_vmcoreinfo_note(void);
#define VMCOREINFO_CONFIG(name) \
vmcoreinfo_append_str("CONFIG_%s=y\n", #name)
extern u32 vmcoreinfo_note[VMCOREINFO_NOTE_SIZE/4];
extern u32 *vmcoreinfo_note;
extern size_t vmcoreinfo_size;
extern size_t vmcoreinfo_max_size;