> On 01-Mar-2024, at 12:32 PM, Aditya Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > > Below error is noticed when running crash on vmcore collected from a > linux-next > kernel crash (linux-next tag next-20240121): > > # crash /boot/vmlinuz-6.8.0-rc5-next-20240221 ./vmcore > …… > …… > For help, type “help”. > Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"... > > crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: c00000000219a2c0 type: > “vmlist" > > This occured since getting the vmalloc area base address doesn't work in > crash now, due to 'vmap_area_list' being removed in the linux kernel with > below commit (in linux-next tree): > > commit 378eb24a0658dd922b29524e0ce35c6c43f56cba > mm/vmalloc: remove vmap_area_list > > As an alternative, the commit introduced 'VMALLOC_START' in vmcoreinfo to > get base address of vmalloc area, use it to return vmallow start address > instead of depending on vmap_area_list and vmlist > > Reported-by: Sachin Sant <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Aditya Gupta <[email protected]> > ---
Thanks Aditya for this fix. With this patch applied, crash is able to read vmcore generated against kernel that contains commit 378eb24a0658 Tested-by: Sachin Sant <[email protected]> — Sachin -- Crash-utility mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://${domain_name}/admin/lists/devel.lists.crash-utility.osci.io/ Contribution Guidelines: https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/wiki
