Linux kernel modifications for the Kernel Hacking exam
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This patch adds support for kdump. In kdump case the normal kernel will reserve a region for the crash kernel and jump there on panic. Arch-specific functions are added to allow for implementing a crash dump file interface, /proc/vmcore, which can be viewed as a ELF file. A user-space tool, such as kexec-tools, is responsible for allocating a separate region for the core's ELF header within the crash kdump kernel memory and filling it in when executing kexec_load(). Then, its location will be advertised to the crash dump kernel via a command line argument "elfcorehdr=", and the crash dump kernel will preserve this region for later use with arch_reserve_vmcore() at boot time. At the same time, the crash kdump kernel is also limited within the "crashkernel" area via a command line argument "mem=", so as not to destroy the original kernel dump data. In the crash dump kernel environment, /proc/vmcore is used to access the primary kernel's memory with copy_oldmem_page(). I tested kdump on LoongArch machines (Loongson-3A5000) and it works as expected (suggested crashkernel parameter is "crashkernel=512M@2560M"), you may test it by triggering a crash through /proc/sysrq-trigger: $ sudo kexec -p /boot/vmlinux-kdump --reuse-cmdline --append="nr_cpus=1" # echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger Signed-off-by: Youling Tang <tangyouling@loongson.cn> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn> |
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arch | ||
block | ||
certs | ||
crypto | ||
Documentation | ||
drivers | ||
fs | ||
include | ||
init | ||
io_uring | ||
ipc | ||
kernel | ||
lib | ||
LICENSES | ||
mm | ||
net | ||
samples | ||
scripts | ||
security | ||
sound | ||
tools | ||
usr | ||
virt | ||
.clang-format | ||
.cocciconfig | ||
.get_maintainer.ignore | ||
.gitattributes | ||
.gitignore | ||
.mailmap | ||
COPYING | ||
CREDITS | ||
Kbuild | ||
Kconfig | ||
MAINTAINERS | ||
Makefile | ||
README |
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. 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.