Re: [Crash-utility] kernel module parsing failure - mips
On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 04:06:20PM -0800, Sagar Borikar wrote:
With 7.1.7, crash is working for MIPS when all drivers are embedded
inside kernel.
When I make the driver loadable and panic the kernel, crash doesn't
locate some symbols correctly.
please wait... (gathering module symbol data)
crash: invalid size request: 0 type: "pgd page"
debugged further and find that PGD_ORDER provides incorrect number
due to which the PGD_SIZE macro results in 0.
Just for fun, I replaced PGD_ORDER with 0(I know its incorrect) and it
went ahead but couldn't run "mod" command successfully as it threw
following error
crash> mod
mod: cannot access vmalloc'd module memory
In order to access vmalloc'd memory we need interpret the page tables
correctly. This isn't needed when the modules are built in since then
the memory will be in the direct-mapped kseg0 segment. So the "mod"
failure is just a consequence of replacing PGD_ORDER with 0.
So the first error should be fixed properly before attempting "mod". What
kernel version is this and what page size do to use?
Try running the "help -m" and "mach" commands (you can skip module
loading with
--no_modules to get to the crash> prompt) and check if the values for the
various page table sizes and bits match what your kernel is using.
crash> help -m
...
pagesize: 4096
pageshift: 12
pagemask: fffffffffffff000
pageoffset: fff
pgdir_shift: 22
ptrs_per_pgd: 1024
ptrs_per_pte: 1024
...
crash-mips> mach
PAGE SIZE: 4096
_PAGE_PRESENT: 00000001
_PAGE_READ: 00000002
_PAGE_WRITE: 00000004
_PAGE_ACCESSED: 00000008
_PAGE_MODIFIED: 00000010
_PAGE_GLOBAL: 00000020
_PAGE_VALID: 00000040
_PAGE_DIRTY: 00000080