[PATCH 1/2 v6] kdump: add the vmcoreinfo documentation

This document lists some variables that export to vmcoreinfo, and briefly describles what these variables indicate. It should be instructive for many people who do not know the vmcoreinfo. Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang --- Documentation/kdump/vmcoreinfo.txt | 500

[PATCH 0/2 v6] kdump, vmcoreinfo: Export the value of sme mask to vmcoreinfo

This patchset did two things: a. add a new document for vmcoreinfo This document lists some variables that export to vmcoreinfo, and briefly describles what these variables indicate. It should be instructive for many people who do not know the vmcoreinfo. b. export the value of sme mask to

[PATCH 2/2 v6] kdump, vmcoreinfo: Export the value of sme mask to vmcoreinfo

For AMD machine with SME feature, makedumpfile tools need to know whether the crashed kernel was encrypted or not. If SME is enabled in the first kernel, the crashed kernel's page table(pgd/pud/pmd/pte) contains the memory encryption mask, so makedumpfile needs to remove the sme mask to obtain the

Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: invalidate TLB just before turning MMU on

Hi Qian, On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 7:24 AM Qian Cai wrote: > > On 12/14/18 2:23 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 at 05:08, Qian Cai wrote: > >> Also tried to move the local TLB flush part around a bit inside > >> __cpu_setup(), although it did complete kdump some times, it did

[PATCH] arm64: kexec_file: return successfully even if kaslr-seed doesn't exist

In kexec_file_load, kaslr-seed property of the current dtb will be deleted any way before setting a new value if possible. It doesn't matter whether it exists in the current dtb. So "ret" should be reset to 0 here. Fixes: commit 884143f60c89 ("arm64: kexec_file: add kaslr support")

Re: [PATCHv5] x86/kdump: bugfix, make the behavior of crashkernel=X consistent with kaslr

On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 10:25 PM Baoquan He wrote: > > On 01/08/19 at 05:48pm, Mike Rapoport wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 05:01:38PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote: > > > Hi Mike, > > > > > > On 01/08/19 at 10:05am, Mike Rapoport wrote: > > > > I'm not thrilled by duplicating this code (yet again).

Re: [PATCHv5] x86/kdump: bugfix, make the behavior of crashkernel=X consistent with kaslr

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 3:57 PM Mike Rapoport wrote: > > Hi Pingfan, > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 09:02:41PM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 11:49 PM Mike Rapoport wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 05:01:38PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote: > > > > Hi Mike, > > > > > > > >