> -----Original Message-----
> From: Will Deacon [mailto:will.dea...@arm.com]
> Sent: 2018年6月19日 16:56
> To: Jin, Yanjiang <yanjiang....@hxt-semitech.com>
> Cc: James Morse <james.mo...@arm.com>; Bhupesh Sharma
> <bhsha...@redhat.com>; Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com>; Ard
> Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org>; Catalin Marinas
> <catalin.mari...@arm.com>; Kexec Mailing List <kexec@lists.infradead.org>;
> AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.aka...@linaro.org>; Bhupesh SHARMA
> <bhupesh.li...@gmail.com>; linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-
> ker...@lists.infradead.org>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64/mm: Introduce a variable to hold base address of
> linear region
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 03:02:15AM +0000, Jin, Yanjiang wrote:
> > > You seem to be using this for user-space phys_to_virt() based on
> > > values found in /proc/iomem. This should give you what you want, and
> > > isolate your user-space from the kernel's unexpected naming of variables.
> >
> > I don't know could I simplify this problem?
> > Let's ignore what memstart_addr represents here, we just want to
> > implement
> > phys_to_virt() in an userspace applications(kexec-tools or others).
> >
> > ARM64 Kernel has a below definition:
> >
> > #define __phys_to_virt(x) ((unsigned long)((x) - PHYS_OFFSET) |
> PAGE_OFFSET)
> >
> > So userspace app must know PHYS_OFFSET(equal to memstart_addr now).
> > Seems this is very simple, but memstart_addr has gone through several
> > operations in arm64_memblock_init() depends on different Kernel
> > configurations, so userspace app needs to know many additional definitions
> > as
> following:
> >
> > memblock_start_of_DRAM(), (ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP),
> > ARM64_MEMSTART_SHIFT, SECTION_SIZE_BITS, PAGE_OFFSET,
> > memblock_end_of_DRAM(), IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE),
> > memstart_offset_seed.
> >
> > It is hard to know all above in kexec-tools now. Originally I planned
> > to read memstart_addr's value from "/dev/mem", but someone thought not
> > all Kernels enable "/dev/mem", we'd better find a more generic
> > approach. So we want to get some suggestions from ARM kernel community.
> > Can we export this variable in Kernel side through sysconf() or other
> > similar methods? Or someone can provide an effect way to get
> > memstart_addr's value?
>
> I thought the suggestion from James was to expose this via an ELF NOTE in
> kcore
> and vmcore (or in the header directly if that's possible, but I'm not sure
> about it)?
Hi Will,
Thanks for your reply firstly. But same as DEVMEM, kcore is not a must-have, so
we can't depend on it.
On the other hand, phys_to_virt() is called during generating vmcore in
Kexec-tools, vmcore also can't help this issue.
Unfortunately, not all platforms support analyzing Kernel config in userspace
application, so Kexec-tools can't know some key kernel options. If not so, we
can simulate the whole arm64_memblock_init() progress in kexec-tools.
Thanks,
Yanjiang
>
> Will
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