----- Original Message -----
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 09:07:29PM +0530, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> I have an ARM crash dump where the page tables have been corrupted.
>
> crash segfaults while reading it because of a stack overflow due to
> recursion
> in the page table read core:
>
> readmem: e2efcde0, KVADDR, "module unwind table", 24, (ROE),
> 8600bc0>
> addr: e2efcde0 paddr: 22efcde0 cnt: 24
> <readmem: bf006550, KVADDR, "module unwind index table", 8, (ROE),
> 9ccab28>
> <readmem: c0004000, KVADDR, "pgd page", 16384, (FOE), 91c18e8>
> addr: c0004000 paddr: 4000 cnt: 4096
> addr: c0005000 paddr: 5000 cnt: 4096
> addr: c0006000 paddr: 6000 cnt: 4096
> addr: c0007000 paddr: 7000 cnt: 4096
> <readmem: ed2d3000, KVADDR, "page table", 4096, (FOE), 91c58f0>
> <readmem: ed2d3000, KVADDR, "page table", 4096, (FOE), 91c58f0>
> <readmem: ed2d3000, KVADDR, "page table", 4096, (FOE), 91c58f0>
> <readmem: ed2d3000, KVADDR, "page table", 4096, (FOE), 91c58f0>
> <readmem: ed2d3000, KVADDR, "page table", 4096, (FOE), 91c58f0>
> <readmem: ed2d3000, KVADDR, "page table", 4096, (FOE), 91c58f0>
> etc till segfault
>
> The problem appears to be that the ARM code is attempting to PTOV() the
> physical address found in the page table and readmem() it as a KVADDR instead
> of just directly reading it as a PHYSADDR.
You are right - there's no point for doing PTOV() for those addreses. To me
this change looks good, thanks.
Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg(a)iki.fi>
Queued for crash-6.0.3.
Thanks,
Dave