Hi Guanyou,
Just a reminder that please don't send the patches as the form of
email attachments. Please send it via commands like: "git send-email
--to=<...> HEAD~2", such that people can do inline commenting on your
code.
Other than that, the patch LGTM, so ack patch 1 & 2.
Thanks,
Tao Liu
On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM Guanyou Chen <chenguanyou9338(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Tao
attached split 2 patches.
Thanks
Guanyou
Tao Liu <ltao(a)redhat.com> 于2025年12月5日周五 11:31写道:
>
> Hi Guanyou,
>
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM Guanyou Chen <chenguanyou9338(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Tao,
> >
> > Check swap_file_is_file from crash commit 3452fe802bf94
> > ("Fix "kmem -i" and "swap" commands on Linux 6.10-rc1
and later kernels")
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Guanyou
> >
> > Tao Liu <ltao(a)redhat.com> 于2025年12月5日周五 06:40写道:
> >>
> >> Hi Guanyou,
> >>
> >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM Guanyou Chen
<chenguanyou9338(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi Lianbo
> >> >
> >> > Kernel commit 55564814a838 ("arm64/mm: Move PTE_PRESENT_INVALID
> >> > to overlay PTE_NG"), which is contained in Linux 6.10 and
> >> > later kernels, changed the format of swap entries on arm64.
> >> > Without the patch, the "vtop" command cannot display swap
information
> >> >
> >> > before:
> >> > crash> vtop 2000000
> >> > VIRTUAL PHYSICAL
> >> > 2000000 (not mapped)
> >> >
> >> > PAGE DIRECTORY: ffffff8106356000
> >> > PGD: ffffff8106356000 => 800000186355003
> >> > PMD: ffffff8106355080 => 8000001476f5003
> >> > PTE: ffffff80c76f5000 => 101a62004
> >> >
> >> > PTE OFFSET: 1055330
> >> > vtop: cannot determine swap location
> >> >
> >> > without the patch:
> >> > crash> vtop 2000000
> >> > VIRTUAL PHYSICAL
> >> > 2000000 (not mapped)
> >> >
> >> > PAGE DIRECTORY: ffffff8106356000
> >> > PGD: ffffff8106356000 => 800000186355003
> >> > PMD: ffffff8106355080 => 8000001476f5003
> >> > PTE: ffffff80c76f5000 => 101a62004
> >> >
> >> > PTE SWAP OFFSET
> >> > 101a62004 /first_stage_ramdisk/dev/block/zram0 1055330
> >> >
> >> > VMA START END FLAGS FILE
> >> > ffffff81a06e8b00 2000000 22000000 100073
> >> >
> >> > SWAP: /first_stage_ramdisk/dev/block/zram0 OFFSET: 1055330
> >> >
> >> > Link:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240503144604.151095-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com
> >> > Signed-off-by: Guanyou.Chen <chenguanyou(a)xiaomi.com>
> >> > ---
> >> > arm64.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> >> > memory.c | 5 ++++-
> >> > 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/arm64.c b/arm64.c
> >> > index 1723595..c125655 100644
> >> > --- a/arm64.c
> >> > +++ b/arm64.c
> >> > @@ -712,7 +712,16 @@ arm64_init(int when)
> >> > }
> >> > }
> >> >
> >> > - if (THIS_KERNEL_VERSION >= LINUX(5,19,0)) {
> >> > + if (THIS_KERNEL_VERSION >= LINUX(6,10,0)) {
> >> > + ms->__SWP_TYPE_BITS = 5;
> >> > + ms->__SWP_TYPE_SHIFT = 6;
> >> > + ms->__SWP_TYPE_MASK = ((1UL <<
ms->__SWP_TYPE_BITS) - 1);
> >> > + ms->__SWP_OFFSET_SHIFT = 12;
> >> > + ms->__SWP_OFFSET_BITS = 50;
> >> > + ms->__SWP_OFFSET_MASK = ((1UL <<
ms->__SWP_OFFSET_BITS) - 1);
> >> > + ms->PTE_PROT_NONE = 0; /* unused */
> >> > + ms->PTE_FILE = 0; /* unused */
> >> > + } else if (THIS_KERNEL_VERSION >= LINUX(5,19,0)) {
>
> Sorry maybe I didn't make myself clear. What I mean is, the kernel
> link, aka
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240503144604.151095-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com,
> updated the information as you have addressed above, and this part is
> OK to me.
>
> >> > ms->__SWP_TYPE_BITS = 5;
> >> > ms->__SWP_TYPE_SHIFT = 3;
> >> > ms->__SWP_TYPE_MASK = ((1UL <<
ms->__SWP_TYPE_BITS) - 1);
> >> > diff --git a/memory.c b/memory.c
> >> > index 400d31a..cbc8d2f 100644
> >> > --- a/memory.c
> >> > +++ b/memory.c
> >> > @@ -16415,6 +16415,8 @@ get_swapdev(ulong type, char *buf)
> >> > ulong vfsmnt;
> >> > char *devname;
> >> > char buf1[BUFSIZE];
> >> > + int swap_file_is_file =
> >> > + STREQ(MEMBER_TYPE_NAME("swap_info_struct",
"swap_file"), "file");
> >> >
> >> > swap_info_init();
> >> >
> >> > @@ -16474,7 +16476,8 @@ get_swapdev(ulong type, char *buf)
> >> > vfsmnt = ULONG(vt->swap_info_struct +
> >> > OFFSET(swap_info_struct_swap_vfsmnt));
> >> > get_pathname(swap_file, buf, BUFSIZE, 1, vfsmnt);
> >> > - } else if (VALID_MEMBER
(swap_info_struct_old_block_size)) {
> >> > + } else if (VALID_MEMBER
(swap_info_struct_old_block_size)
> >> > + || swap_file_is_file) {
>
> But the link nor your commit log doesn't provide information for the
> above swap_file_is_file code change. Like why do you need to add the
> "|| swap_file_is_file" check here? Does it have any relations with the
> previous __SWP_TYPE_XXX value updating? What I'm trying to figure out
> is whether your __SWP_TYPE_XXX updating and swap_file_is_file
> checking, are independent of each other and should go into 2 seperated
> patches.
>
> >>
> >> Any reason for the extra swap_file_is_file check? From the kernel
> >> patch link you posted, only the __SWP_TYPE_XXX changes, which is
> >> presented in (THIS_KERNEL_VERSION >= LINUX(6,10,0), but no info
> >> related to swap_file_is_file check?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Tao Liu
> >>
> >>
> >> > devname = vfsmount_devname(file_to_vfsmnt(swap_file),
> >> > buf1, BUFSIZE);
> >> > get_pathname(file_to_dentry(swap_file),
> >> > --
> >> > 2.34.1
> >> >
> >> > Thanks.
> >> > Guanyou
> >>
>