linux/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump
Bhupesh Sharma bbdbc11804 arm64/crash_core: Export TCR_EL1.T1SZ in vmcoreinfo
TCR_EL1.TxSZ, which controls the VA space size, is configured by a
single kernel image to support either 48-bit or 52-bit VA space.

If the ARMv8.2-LVA optional feature is present and we are running
with a 64KB page size, then it is possible to use 52-bits of address
space for both userspace and kernel addresses. However, any kernel
binary that supports 52-bit must also be able to fall back to 48-bit
at early boot time if the hardware feature is not present.

Since TCR_EL1.T1SZ indicates the size of the memory region addressed by
TTBR1_EL1, export the same in vmcoreinfo. User-space utilities like
makedumpfile and crash-utility need to read this value from vmcoreinfo
for determining if a virtual address lies in the linear map range.

While at it also add documentation for TCR_EL1.T1SZ variable being
added to vmcoreinfo.

It indicates the size offset of the memory region addressed by
TTBR1_EL1.

Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Tested-by: John Donnelly <john.p.donnelly@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Kamlakant Patel <kamlakantp@marvell.com>
Tested-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio@ab.jp.nec.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1589395957-24628-3-git-send-email-bhsharma@redhat.com
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: removed vabits_actual from the commit log]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2020-07-02 17:56:49 +01:00
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kdump.rst kernel: add panic_on_taint 2020-06-08 11:05:56 -07:00
vmcoreinfo.rst arm64/crash_core: Export TCR_EL1.T1SZ in vmcoreinfo 2020-07-02 17:56:49 +01:00