Re: [Crash-utility] arm64: doesn't work for kernel v5.4?

> ----- Original Message ----- > > Hi Dave, > > > > I tried to use crash v7.2.7 with kernel v5.4-rc1 on arm64. > > > > 1. VA_BITS_ACTUAL is missing in vmcoreinfo. > > Does anyone work on fixing it on kernel side? > > (just adding one or two lines though) > > > > 2. With a tweak above, I still fail to run crash with vmcore > > seeing the following errors; > > (I didn't dig into details) > > > > crash-arm64: invalid kernel virtual address: ffff800010c689a8 type: "kernel_config_data" > > WARNING: cannot read kernel_config_data > > crash-arm64: invalid kernel virtual address: ffff80001177a160 type: "possible" > > WARNING: cannot read cpu_possible_map > > crash-arm64: invalid kernel virtual address: ffff80001177a140 type: "present" > > WARNING: cannot read cpu_present_map > > crash-arm64: invalid kernel virtual address: ffff80001177a120 type: "online" > > WARNING: cannot read cpu_online_map > > crash-arm64: invalid kernel virtual address: ffff80001177a188 type: "active" > > WARNING: cannot read cpu_active_map > > crash-arm64: invalid kernel virtual address: ffff80001196afe0 type: "shadow_timekeeper xtime_sec" > > crash-arm64: invalid kernel virtual address: ffff800011782b3c type: "init_uts_ns" > > WARNING: invalid linux_banner pointer: ffff800010c500e8 > > crash: vmlinux.1003 and vmcore.1003 do not match! > > > > Have you noticed this issue? > > I have been waiting for our internal 5.4-rc1 based ARK kernel to be built, > and it looks like it should be available soon. But I did not expect crash > to work on arm64 in 5.4. > > I put in a bunch of 52-bit support into the crash utility last spring, but > it was based upon an early proposed patch-set from Steve Capper that Chris > von Recklinghausen backported to our 4.18.0-80.el8 kernel at the time. > I believe Chris may have added the VA_BITS_ACTUAL vmcoreinfo entry (?), > and I'm presuming there will be other VM-related things that are > different from that original kernel patch. > > Thanks, > Dave I still haven't got a 5.4-rc1 kernel to test with, but Chris Von Recklinghausen has backported the latest upstream 52-bit patch-set to a 4.18-based kernel. However, it did require one additional patch needed for crash to run live on /proc/kcore, which he posted on the arm list today: [PATCH] arm64: remove arm64 definitions of kc_vaddr_to_offset and kc_offset_to_vaddr. http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2019-October/685109... With his patch-set (including the above), crash-7.2.7 comes up unmodified on a live system -- albeit one which downgrades from 52 bits to 48 bits. Chris is going to test crash running live on a 52 bit simulator tomorrow.

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