[Crash-utility] crash-4.0-2.10 ppc64 4-level pagetable fixes

Badari Pulavarty pbadari at us.ibm.com
Tue Nov 8 22:54:33 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 17:32 -0500, Dave Anderson wrote:
> Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 14:42 -0500, Dave Anderson wrote:
> > > Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yep. You are right, those pages are not mapped. Initially
> > > > I thought that was the case, but I wasn't really sure if it
> > > > can happen with segments from shared libraries. (since
> > > > the routine which is telling its not mapped involves
> > > > going through my code).
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, I verified this on x86-64 machine also - I do
> > > > get "read" error and those pages are not mapped.
> > > >
> > > > I guess, my changes are good :)
> > > >
> > > > Haren, can you review them ?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Badari
> > > >
> > >
> > > The patch looks just fine to me -- the only minor things to
> > > add is a dump of the VM_ORIG/VM_4_LEVEL bits in
> > > the ppc64_dump_machdep_table() debug function, and
> > > although the "pud_clear_bad" is in all probability quite
> > > suitable as a qualifier, it's probably also worth adding
> > > an optional "--machdep vm=xxx" command line argument
> > > like I put in place for the x86_64 equivalent.  Just to cover
> > > our collective arse...
> > >
> > > Anyway, upon Haren's blessing, it's good to go.
> > >
> > > Again -- really nice work!
> >
> > Okay, made recommended changes.
> >
> > I still need to figure out a decent symbol to identify
> > 4-level pagetable layout. I am looking through "nm -Bn".
> > I still can't find a decent one. (has to be some symbol
> > added for 2.6.14).
> >
> > Any ideas ?
> >
> 
> If you can google out the wholesale patch that introduced the
> 4-level pagetable support, you might find something added
> or removed?  That's what I did for the x86_64 qualifier.
> 

Okay. I found new structure "pgtable_cache" got added along
with 4-level pagetable changes. I am using that symbol now.

Thanks,
Badari


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