6:26 a.m.
Hi Lianbo,
Resending this, since skipped your mail from "To:" field by mistake.
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 05:46:32PM +0800, lijiang wrote:
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 3:59 PM Aditya Gupta
<adityag(a)linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 21/09/23 11:21, lijiang wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 7: 34 PM lijiang <lijiang@ redhat. com>
> <lijiang(a)%E2%80%8Aredhat.%E2%80%8Acom> wrote: Hi, Aditya Thank you for
> the patch. On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 8: 00 PM <crash-utility-request@
> redhat. com> <crash-utility-request(a)%E2%80%8Aredhat.%E2%80%8Acom> wrote:
> From: Aditya Gupta <adityag@ linux. ibm. com>
> <adityag(a)%E2%80%8Alinux.%E2%80%8Aibm.%E2%80%8Acom> To:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 7:34 PM lijiang <lijiang(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Aditya
>> Thank you for the patch.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 8:00 PM <crash-utility-request(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> ppc64.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>>> 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/ppc64.c b/ppc64.c
>>> index fc34006f4863..1e84c5f56773 100644
>>> --- a/ppc64.c
>>> +++ b/ppc64.c
>>> @@ -1280,8 +1280,30 @@ void ppc64_vmemmap_init(void)
>>> long backing_size, virt_addr_offset, phys_offset, list_offset;
>>> ulong *vmemmap_list;
>>> char *vmemmap_buf;
>>> - struct machine_specific *ms;
>>> -
>>> + struct machine_specific *ms = machdep->machspec;
>>> +
>>> + ld = &list_data;
>>> + BZERO(ld, sizeof(struct list_data));
>>> +
>>> + /*
>>> + * vmemmap_list is missing or set to 0 in the kernel would imply
>>> + * vmemmap region is mapped in the kernel pagetable. So, read
>>> vmemmap_list
>>> + * anyway and use the translation method accordingly.
>>> + */
>>> + readmem(symbol_value("vmemmap_list"), KVADDR,
&ld->start,
>>> sizeof(void *),
>>> + "vmemmap_list", RETURN_ON_ERROR);
>>> + if (!ld->start) {
>>> + /*
>>> + * vmemmap_list is set to 0 or missing. Do kernel
>>> pagetable walk
>>> + * for vmemmamp address translation.
>>> + */
>>> + ms->vmemmap_list = NULL;
>>> + ms->vmemmap_cnt = 0;
>>> +
>>> + machdep->flags |= VMEMMAP_AWARE;
>>> + return;
>>> + }
>>> +
>>>
>>
> I would suggest putting the
'readmem(symbol_value("vmemmap_list"),...)'
> after the 'kernel_symbol_exists("vmemmap_list")', and also check
the
> returned value of readmem().
>
> Yes, I considered that, but the if condition checking for
> 'kernel_symbol_exists("vmemmap_list")' returns from the function
if the
> symbol is not found, same with the readmem return value check earlier, we
> wanted to initialise the ms->vmemmap_list and machdep->flags before that.
>
>
It's true.
For the current patch, if the symbol 'vmemmap_list' is not found, the
symbol_value() will invoke the error(FATAL, ...) and ultimately exit from
this function. It doesn't have any chance to execute the initialising code.
Got it, this would be an issue when 'vmemmap_list' is missing.
Made a mistake here, Thanks, will add an if around the readmem, that should
solve it, like this ?
if (kernel_symbol_exists("vmemmap_list"))
readmem(symbol_value("vmemmap_list"), KVADDR, &ld->start,
sizeof(void *),
"vmemmap_list", RETURN_ON_ERROR | QUIET);
Will fix this in V2.
And, the initialization code relies on the result of ld->start,
once the
readmem() fails due to some reasons, it may also enter the
initialization code. I'm not sure if that is expected behavior(if yes, the
"RETURN_ON_ERROR|QUIET " would be good).
Okay, even if readmem fails, we still go ahead and since ld was all zeros,
'if (!ld->start)' should remain true, for both cases when vmemmap_list is
empty
(head is NULL, hence ld->start=0), vmemmap_list symbol is not found or readmem
fails (ld->start=0 since ld was all zeros due to BZERO).
Will add "RETURN_ON_ERROR|QUIET" also in V2.
If so, the kernel_symbol_exists("vmemmap_list") may be redundant. That can
be removed this time. What do you think?
True. Since the case of 'vmemmap_list' being empty, or symbol not being there,
both get handled before this, that can be removed.
Will do it in V2.
Thanks,
- Aditya Gupta
> The readmem used to be like this, which returns from function if
readmem
> failed:
>
> - if (!readmem(symbol_value("vmemmap_list"),
> - KVADDR, &ld->start, sizeof(void *), "vmemmap_list",
> - RETURN_ON_ERROR))
> - return;
>
> So, intentionally I put it above the if and removed the return value
> check, since we don't want to depend on vmemmap_list symbol being there for
> newer kernels anymore.
> And to be future proof in case the address mapping moves to page table for
> Hash MMU case also, and since vmemmap_list is PowerPC specific, the symbol
> might also be removed.
>
>
Ok, got it, thanks for the information.
> But, if it's a coding guidelines requirement to handle the return values,
> I can think of how to handle the return value of readmem, any suggestions ?
>
>
No, it's not a coding guidelines requirement. :-)
>
> And other changes are fine to me.
>
> Thank you for your reviews Lianbo :)
>
>
No problem.
Thanks.
Lianbo
> Thanks,
> - Aditya Gupta
>