Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] Documentation: kdump: describe VMCOREINFO export for RISCV64

From: Bagas Sanjaya
Date: Mon Oct 17 2022 - 23:26:23 EST


On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 09:41:39PM +0800, Xianting Tian wrote:
> The following interrelated definitions and ranges are needed by the kdump
> crash tool, they are exported by "arch/riscv/kernel/crash_core.c":

Better say "..., which are exported by ..."

> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst
> index 6726f439958c..8e2e164cf3db 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst
> @@ -595,3 +595,33 @@ X2TLB
> -----
>
> Indicates whether the crashed kernel enabled SH extended mode.
> +
> +RISCV64
> +=======
> +
> +VA_BITS
> +-------
> +
> +The maximum number of bits for virtual addresses. Used to compute the
> +virtual memory ranges.
> +
> +PAGE_OFFSET
> +-----------
> +
> +Indicates the virtual kernel start address of direct-mapped RAM region.
> +
> +phys_ram_base
> +-------------
> +
> +Indicates the start physical RAM address.
> +
> +MODULES_VADDR|MODULES_END|VMALLOC_START|VMALLOC_END|VMEMMAP_START|VMEMMAP_END|KASAN_SHADOW_START|KASAN_SHADOW_END|KERNEL_LINK_ADDR|ADDRESS_SPACE_END
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +
> +Used to get the correct ranges:
> +
> + * MODULES_VADDR ~ MODULES_END : Kernel module space.
> + * VMALLOC_START ~ VMALLOC_END : vmalloc() / ioremap() space.
> + * VMEMMAP_START ~ VMEMMAP_END : vmemmap region, used for struct page array.
> + * KASAN_SHADOW_START ~ KASAN_SHADOW_END : kasan shadow space.
> + * KERNEL_LINK_ADDR ~ ADDRESS_SPACE_END : Kernel link and BPF space.

The documentation LGTM, thanks.

When the patch subject is fixed,

Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx>

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