Thanks to Dave's suggest, I impove the way to identify LPAE enabled kernel for arm platform, for compatibility with some old kernel. If a vmcore santisfy one of the following conditions, It must be generated by a LPAE enabled kernel. (1) it has CONFIG_ARM_LPAE=y vmcore_info (2) swapper_pg_dir and its next symbol value differ by 0x5000 changes from V1: - drop function next_symbol_value Signed-off-by: Liu Hua <sdu.liu(a)huawei.com&gt; --- arm.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arm.c b/arm.c index cb7d841..e7d3dbc 100644 --- a/arm.c +++ b/arm.c @@ -190,6 +190,8 @@ void arm_init(int when) { ulong vaddr; + char *string; + struct syment *sp; #if defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__) if (ACTIVE()) @@ -229,8 +231,13 @@ arm_init(int when) * LPAE requires an additional page for the PGD, * so PG_DIR_SIZE = 0x5000 for LPAE */ - if ((symbol_value("_text") - symbol_value("swapper_pg_dir")) == 0x5000) + if ((string = pc->read_vmcoreinfo("CONFIG_ARM_LPAE"))) { machdep->flags |= PAE; + free(string); + } else if ((sp = next_symbol("swapper_pg_dir", NULL)) && + (sp->value - symbol_value("swapper_pg_dir")) == 0x5000) + machdep->flags |= PAE; + machdep->kvbase = symbol_value("_stext") & ~KVBASE_MASK; machdep->identity_map_base = machdep->kvbase; machdep->is_kvaddr = arm_is_kvaddr; -- 1.9.0