Thread (232 messages) 232 messages, 19 authors, 2018-02-08

Re: [PATCH 4.14 023/159] mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y

From: Mike Galbraith <hidden>
Date: 2018-01-09 03:45:24
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On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 03:13 +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
Mike, could you test this? (On top of the rest of the fixes.)
homer:..crash/2018-01-09-04:25 # ll
total 1863604
-rw------- 1 root root      66255 Jan  9 04:25 dmesg.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root        182 Jan  9 04:25 README.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    2818240 Jan  9 04:25 System.map-4.15.0.gb2cd1df-master
-rw------- 1 root root 1832914928 Jan  9 04:25 vmcore
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   72514993 Jan  9 04:25 vmlinux-4.15.0.gb2cd1df-master.gz

Yup, all better.
Sorry for the mess.
(why, developers not installing shiny new bugs is a whole lot worse:)
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From 100fd567754f1457be94732046aefca204c842d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <redacted>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 02:55:47 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] kdump: Write a correct address of mem_section into vmcoreinfo

Depending on configuration mem_section can now be an array or a pointer
to an array allocated dynamically. In most cases, we can continue to refer
to it as 'mem_section' regardless of what it is.

But there's one exception: '&mem_section' means "address of the array" if
mem_section is an array, but if mem_section is a pointer, it would mean
"address of the pointer".

We've stepped onto this in kdump code. VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(mem_section)
writes down address of pointer into vmcoreinfo, not array as we wanted.

Let's introduce VMCOREINFO_ARRAY() that would handle the situation
correctly for both cases.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <redacted>
Fixes: 83e3c48729d9 ("mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y")
---
 include/linux/crash_core.h | 2 ++
 kernel/crash_core.c        | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/crash_core.h b/include/linux/crash_core.h
index 06097ef30449..83ae04950269 100644
--- a/include/linux/crash_core.h
+++ b/include/linux/crash_core.h
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ phys_addr_t paddr_vmcoreinfo_note(void);
 	vmcoreinfo_append_str("PAGESIZE=%ld\n", value)
 #define VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(name) \
 	vmcoreinfo_append_str("SYMBOL(%s)=%lx\n", #name, (unsigned long)&name)
+#define VMCOREINFO_ARRAY(name) \
+	vmcoreinfo_append_str("SYMBOL(%s)=%lx\n", #name, (unsigned long)name)
 #define VMCOREINFO_SIZE(name) \
 	vmcoreinfo_append_str("SIZE(%s)=%lu\n", #name, \
 			      (unsigned long)sizeof(name))
diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
index b3663896278e..d4122a837477 100644
--- a/kernel/crash_core.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init(void)
 	VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(contig_page_data);
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
-	VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(mem_section);
+	VMCOREINFO_ARRAY(mem_section);
 	VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(mem_section, NR_SECTION_ROOTS);
 	VMCOREINFO_STRUCT_SIZE(mem_section);
 	VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(mem_section, section_mem_map);
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