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[v7,11/12] powerpc/fsl_booke/kaslr: export offset in VMCOREINFO ELF notes

Message ID 20190920094546.44948-12-yanaijie@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
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Series implement KASLR for powerpc/fsl_booke/32 | expand

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Commit Message

Jason Yan Sept. 20, 2019, 9:45 a.m. UTC
Like all other architectures such as x86 or arm64, include KASLR offset
in VMCOREINFO ELF notes to assist in debugging. After this, we can use
crash --kaslr option to parse vmcore generated from a kaslr kernel.

Note: The crash tool needs to support --kaslr too.

Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com>
Cc: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index c4ed328a7b96..078fe3d76feb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@  void arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
 	VMCOREINFO_STRUCT_SIZE(mmu_psize_def);
 	VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(mmu_psize_def, shift);
 #endif
+	vmcoreinfo_append_str("KERNELOFFSET=%lx\n", kaslr_offset());
 }
 
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