[RFC PATCH 0/4] makedumpfile/arm64: support flipped VA and 52-bit kernel VA

[kazuhito.hagio@gmail.com]

Hi Bhupesh, Alexander, Pingfan and arm64 guys,

I've rewritten Bhupesh's v5 patch [1] in order to avoid some limitations and
now this patchset
- can be built on some old arm64 environments hopefully,
- can be built on x86_64 machines with TARGET=aarch64,
- can process vmcores on different version of kernel from captured version.

Could you test this?  The patchset is also on GitHub [2] and the commit
messages are to be written later.

However the following conditions are probably not supported:
- 5.11-rc is not taken into account
- 5.4 <= kernels <= 5.8 (*1)
  * if PA_BITS=52 && VA_BITS!=52
  * with -x option if vabits_actual=52
- kernels < 5.4 with CONFIG_ARM64_USER_VA_BITS_52=y (e.g. RHEL8 kernels)

(*1) supported with kernel commit bbdbc11804ff and 1d50e5d0c5052.

I think especially MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS cannot be guessed correctly only with
the entries in vmcoreinfo (even with Bhupesh's original patch), so basically
I would like distributions that uses 5.4 to 5.8 to backport Bhupesh's kernel
patches above if the patchset does not work well.

[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2020-September/021336.html
[2] https://github.com/k-hagio/makedumpfile/commits/arm64.kh.test2

Kazuhito Hagio (4):
  Use ELF vmcoreinfo note for --mem-usage option
  arm64: use NUMBER(VA_BITS) in vmcoreinfo
  Get kernel version from OSRELEASE in vmcoreinfo
  arm64: support flipped VA and 52-bit kernel VA

 arch/arm64.c   | 155 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 makedumpfile.c |  32 ++++++++++--
 makedumpfile.h |   1 +
 3 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

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2.9.3


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