kexec: move vmcoreinfo out of the kernel's .bss section
As Eric said, "what we need to do is move the variable vmcoreinfo_note out of the kernel's .bss section. And modify the code to regenerate and keep this information in something like the control page. Definitely something like this needs a page all to itself, and ideally far away from any other kernel data structures. I clearly was not watching closely the data someone decided to keep this silly thing in the kernel's .bss section." This patch allocates extra pages for these vmcoreinfo_XXX variables, one advantage is that it enhances some safety of vmcoreinfo, because vmcoreinfo now is kept far away from other kernel data structures. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493281021-20737-1-git-send-email-xlpang@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com> Tested-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Suggested-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -163,8 +163,3 @@ void arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
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#endif
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}
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phys_addr_t paddr_vmcoreinfo_note(void)
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{
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return ia64_tpa((unsigned long)(char *)&vmcoreinfo_note);
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}
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