Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 3 authors, 2019-01-04

Re: [PATCH 1/2 v4] kdump: add the vmcoreinfo documentation

From: lijiang <hidden>
Date: 2019-01-04 02:28:33
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在 2019年01月04日 03:28, Kazuhito Hagio 写道:
Hi Lianbo,

-----Original Message-----
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+=======================
+What is the VMCOREINFO?
+=======================
+
+VMCOREINFO is a special ELF note section. It contains various
+information from the kernel like structure size, page size, symbol
+values, field offsets, etc. These data are packed into an ELF note
+section and used by user-space tools like crash and makedumpfile to
+analyze a kernel's memory layout.
+
+To dump the VMCOREINFO contents, one can do:
+
+# makedumpfile -g VMCOREINFO -x vmlinux
again, this command does not dump the VMCOREINFO in ELF note section.
It converts the vmlinux's debug infomation into a VMCOREINFO-like data.
So I don't think this command is suitable to introduce here.
Thank you, Kazu.

As you mentioned, makedumpfile in 'devel' branch can print VMCOREINFO in /proc/kcore,
can i add the following command to this document?

#makedumpfile --mem-usage /proc/kcore -D
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+PG_lru|PG_private|PG_swapcache|PG_swapbacked|PG_slab|
+PG_hwpoision|PG_head_mask
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+Page attributes. These flags are used to filter free pages.
Some of these are not used to filter *free* pages, so

... used to filter various unnecessary pages.
Great. I will modify it in next post.

And also merge the 'PG_buddy' and 'PG_offline'  into the PG_* flag here.

Many thanks.

Lianbo
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+PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE or ~PG_buddy
+--------------------------------------
then, this can be merged into the one above?
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+======
+x86_64
+======
...
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+PAGE_OFFLINE_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_offline)
+----------------------------------------
This looks not only for x86_64, and also can be merged into
the PG_* flags?

Thank you for your effort!
Kazu
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