On 25/01/14 09:47, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Eugene Surovegin <[email protected]> >> >> Include kASLR offset in VMCOREINFO ELF notes to assist in debugging. >> >> Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <[email protected]> >> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> >> --- >> v2: >> - make sure "From:" got sent correctly >> --- >> arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 2 ++ >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c >> b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c >> index 4eabc160696f..679cef0791cd 100644 >> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c >> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c >> @@ -279,5 +279,7 @@ void arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void) >> VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(node_data); >> VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(node_data, MAX_NUMNODES); >> #endif >> + vmcoreinfo_append_str("KERNELOFFSET=%lx\n", >> + (unsigned long)&_text - __START_KERNEL); >> } > > I've Cc:-ed Adrian Hunter, who has sent the following kaslr fixes for > perf yesterday: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/24/220 > > Adrian, is this patch the right solution from the perf tooling > perspective?
perf tools isn't a consumer of VMCOREINFO although I see VMCOREINFO already has _stext which would be enough for many purposes. > > Thanks, > > Ingo > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
