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vabits_actual variable on arm64 indicates the actual VA space size, and allows a single binary to support both 48-bit and 52-bit VA spaces. If the ARMv8.2-LVA optional feature is present, and we are running with a 64KB page size; then it is possible to use 52-bits of address space for both userspace and kernel addresses. However, any kernel binary that supports 52-bit must also be able to fall back to 48-bit at early boot time if the hardware feature is not present. Since TCR_EL1.T1SZ indicates the size offset of the memory region addressed by TTBR1_EL1 (and hence can be used for determining the vabits_actual value) it makes more sense to export the same in vmcoreinfo rather than vabits_actual variable, as the name of the variable can change in future kernel versions, but the architectural constructs like TCR_EL1.T1SZ can be used better to indicate intended specific fields to user-space. User-space utilities like makedumpfile and crash-utility, need to read/write this value from/to vmcoreinfo for determining if a virtual address lies in the linear map range. The user-space computation for determining whether an address lies in the linear map range is the same as we have in kernel-space: #define __is_lm_address(addr) (!(((u64)addr) & BIT(vabits_actual - 1))) I have sent out user-space patches for makedumpfile and crash-utility to add features for obtaining vabits_actual value from TCR_EL1.T1SZ (see [0] and [1]). Akashi reported that he was able to use this patchset and the user-space changes to get user-space working fine with the 52-bit kernel VA changes (see [2]). [0]. http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2019-November/023966.html [1]. http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2019-November/024006.html [2]. http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2019-November/023992.html Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com> Cc: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio@ab.jp.nec.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> Tested-by: Poonam Aggrwal <poonam.aggrwal@nxp.com> Acked-by: Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp.com> (cherry picked from commit 9b27020c75fe40ef3d959d6660d09278577a5931) |
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README
Linux kernel
============
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.