From 203e9e41219b4e7357104e525e91ac609fba2c6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xunlei Pang Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:33:14 -0700 Subject: 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 Tested-by: Michael Holzheu Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross Suggested-by: Eric Biederman Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Dave Young Cc: Hari Bathini Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c index 1d7a7213a310..cab28cf2cffb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c @@ -2693,8 +2693,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xen_destroy_contiguous_region); phys_addr_t paddr_vmcoreinfo_note(void) { if (xen_pv_domain()) - return virt_to_machine(&vmcoreinfo_note).maddr; + return virt_to_machine(vmcoreinfo_note).maddr; else - return __pa_symbol(&vmcoreinfo_note); + return __pa(vmcoreinfo_note); } #endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE */ -- cgit v1.2.3